PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16227968
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["166", "248000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure describes methods and systems for fracturing geological formations in a hydrocarbon reservoir. One method includes forming a borehole in a hydrocarbon reservoir from a surface of the hydrocarbon reservoir extending downward into the hydrocarbon reservoir; transmitting an electromagnetic (EM) wave through the borehole: directing at least a portion of the EM wave to rocks at a location below the surface in the hydrocarbon reservoir; and fracturing the rocks at the location below the surface in the hydrocarbon reservoir by irradiating the rocks around the borehole using at least the portion of the EM wave, wherein irradiating the rocks elevates pore-water pressure in the rocks causing fracturing of the rocks.

Claim (Index 21):
A method, comprising:\n forming a borehole pattern comprising a plurality of boreholes in a hydrocarbon reservoir from a surface of the hydrocarbon reservoir extending downward into the hydrocarbon reservoir, wherein the forming the borehole pattern comprises: determining a distance based on a stimulated fracture density; and positioning the plurality of boreholes in a pattern having an equal distance between neighboring boreholes, wherein the equal distance is set to the determined distance; transmitting an EM wave through at least one of the plurality of boreholes at a location below the surface of the hydrocarbon reservoir; and for each of the at least one of the plurality of boreholes, fracturing rocks around the respective borehole using the EM wave.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15891117', '15243312', '15926666', '13533795', '14568760']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7718132216271949
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5797306698480169
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7526049664492771
- Mean Citation Score: 329.366458
- Max Citation Score: 489.0963
- Similarity Product: 451.5953378612994

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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