PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750783
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["345", "419000"]

Abstract:
The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating multiple correlated meshes around complex and discrete fractures for the purpose of reservoir simulation. In an initial two-stage process, a 2.5-dimensional mesher algorithm, may be used in conjunction with an extended anisotropic geometry-adaptive refinement algorithm to produce, from a structured grid Earth Model, a refined reservoir model. Fractures may be modeled as a volumetric mesh that is independent of the refined reservoir model. Thereafter, the two independent, overlapping meshes are combined by forming matrix-matrix, fracture-fracture, and matrix-fracture connections to form a single model to allow rapid simulation of an extremely complex fracture network with sufficiently accurate results.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 1  wherein:\n the 2.5-dimensional-permitting fractures have geometry that has been discretized in a two-dimensional plane by a collection of line segments; and \n said generating said volumetric matrix mesh further comprises, \n for each line segment associated with each fracture in the 2.5D-permitting fractures, generating a set of stadia at a specified radii from the line segment, generating closed loops around the line segment, and generating shape elements within the closed loops of the line segment, and \n generating the mesh as a constrained mesh around closed loops of the 2.5D-permitting fractures to fill in a remainder space of the two-dimensional plane.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.49398
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15517006', '15313933', '12630709', '13644479', '12920914']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6719787713794132
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5158874154129226
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6563696357827641
- Mean Citation Score: 241.679644
- Max Citation Score: 325.95148
- Similarity Product: 291.861400244894

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

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