PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948657
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["166", "280100"]

Abstract:
Compositions for suspending proppants in a hydraulic fracture of a subterranean formation involve a carrier fluid, a plurality of proppants, and a plurality of filaments, which optionally are comprised into a fabric that includes a plurality of connected filaments. The filaments contain crosslinkable sites, e.g. organo-borate, organo-zirconate, organo-titanate, and/or hydroxyl groups. A method of using the compositions includes hydraulically fracturing the subterranean formation to form fractures in the formation, during and/or after hydraulically fracturing the subterranean formation introducing proppants into the fractures, during and/or after hydraulically fracturing the subterranean formation introducing a plurality of filaments into the fractures, where the filaments contact and inhibit or prevent the proppant from settling by gravity within the fractures; and closing the fractures against the proppants. Inhibiting and/or preventing the proppants from settling is improved by the crosslinkable sites crosslinking a polymer present in a fluid contacting the filaments; e.g. a polysaccharide.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 1  where fabrics are present in the fractures and the fabrics comprise a plurality of filaments connected by a structure selected from the group consisting of:\n woven, \n non-woven, \n knitted, \n laminated, \n plied, \n spun, \n knotted, \n stacked, and \n combinations thereof; \n where at least a portion of the filaments comprise a plurality of crosslinkable sites on the filaments, where the crosslinkable sites are selected from the group consisting of organo-borate, organo-zirconate, organo-titanate, hydroxyl groups, and combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21333
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14845783', '14546301', '15440900', '14324056', '14324050']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8163023667581248
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5119246173118952
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7858645918135019
- Mean Citation Score: 286.227388
- Max Citation Score: 303.955
- Similarity Product: 162.1805783423781

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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