PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16287482
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["422", "187000"]

Abstract:
Refining assemblies and methods for refining rich natural gas containing a first methane gas and other hydrocarbons that are heavier than methane gas are disclosed. In some embodiments, the assemblies may include a methane-producing assembly configured to receive at least one liquid-containing feed stream that includes water and rich natural gas and to produce an output stream therefrom by (a) converting at least a substantial portion of the other hydrocarbons of the rich natural gas with the water to a second methane gas, a lesser portion of the water, and other gases, and (b) allowing at least a substantial portion of the first methane gas from the rich natural gas to pass through the methane-producing assembly unconverted. The assemblies may additionally include a purification assembly configured to receive the output stream and to produce a methane-rich stream therefrom having a greater methane concentration than the output stream.

Claim (Index 25):
The refining assembly of  claim 24 , wherein at least one of the first and second heating assemblies includes:\n a frame; and first and second opposed planar plates attached to the frame and defining an interior therebetween, wherein the frame includes one or more inlets that are fluidly connected to the interior and that are for receiving at least one fuel stream, and one or both of the first and second plates include openings distributed along at least a substantial portion of a length and/or a width of one or both of the first and second plates, the openings define a plurality of outlets for the at least one fuel stream.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28986
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14820256', '14937629', '15717591', '14734763', '16050847']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8726798535065677
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5651103806910649
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8419229062250175
- Mean Citation Score: 430.811236
- Max Citation Score: 476.8274
- Similarity Product: 436.8042562571288

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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