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 31):
The refining assembly of  claim 30 , wherein at least one of the first and second heating assemblies includes at least one burner.

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): 0.8750955262610022
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.552970404177783
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8428830140526803
- Mean Citation Score: 430.811236
- Max Citation Score: 476.8274
- Similarity Product: 364.77758682276016

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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