PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16070245
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["166", "378000"]

Abstract:
Example apparatuses and methods are described for providing a swell packer apparatus having a vulcanized non-swelling outer layer with a pattern cut into it to expose an inner swellable sealing element. In an example embodiment, the swell packer includes a mandrel having a substantially cylindrical outer surface. A sealing element extends radially around the mandrel and a non-swelling layer circumferentially covers an outer surface of the sealing element. One or more grooves are cut in the non-swelling layer to expose a portion of the outer surface of the sealing element. The non-swelling layer is configured to prevent fluid communication between a swelling fluid disposed outside of the non-swelling layer and portions of the outer surface of the sealing element covered by the non-swelling layer.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 16 , wherein cutting one or more grooves comprises cutting a symmetric or an asymmetric pattern in the non-swelling layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9697
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15835782', '14085447', '16000461', '11334095', '16069849']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8072179363455461
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.504371388196475
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.776933281530639
- Mean Citation Score: 224.767146
- Max Citation Score: 239.05676
- Similarity Product: 130.390824292984

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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