PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751944
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["166", "246000"]

Abstract:
The present invention utilise the phenomena of nutrient adsorption to enhance nutrient bioavailability and enhance methanogenesis efficiency. Thus methods for avoiding or reversing such adsorption or utilising the phenomena in a way favourable to promotion of methanogenesis in a formation, for example, through desorption of bound nutrients, or adsorption competing bacteria nutrients or methanogen toxicants, etc., are provided herein.

Claim (Index 17):
A method for methanogenesis site selection comprising the steps of:\n (a) analysing one or more components of the formation to determine a set of nutrient adsorption and/or desorption environmental characteristics associated with the formation environment in its native state, wherein the nutrients are one or more biostimulating nutrients which are adsorbable onto, and/or, desorbable from, the one or more components of the formation; (b) detecting a presence of one or more methanogenic microbes within each formation; (c) measuring a level of methane gas production occurring within each formation; (d) using information obtained from steps (a) to (c) to devise an optimised formation environment with respect to biostimulating nutrient adsorption and/or desorption that promotes optimal in-situ methanogenesis from the feedstock by the methanogenic microbes through modification of the adsorption and/or desorption environmental characteristics of the formation to enhance bioavailability of the one or more biostimulating nutrients; and (e) selecting a preferred site for methane production on the basis of adjustability of the absorption/desorption characteristics of the one or more nutrients at each formation as determined by a process of developing a subterranean formation amendment regime regimen of any one of  claims 1  to  16 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15106214', '13162097', '15861252', '13504120', '13515774']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7897280333898331
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.488722292291919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7596274592800417
- Mean Citation Score: 266.66006400000003
- Max Citation Score: 278.76382
- Similarity Product: 225.9674264701605

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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