PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972553
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["299", "005000"]

Abstract:
According to embodiments described in the specification, an exemplary method is disclosed for hydraulically hoisting potash (or other evaporite ore) ‘fines’ material from an underground mine. The method includes mining an ore deposit using a boring machine to generate Run-of-Mine (ROM) material at a mine face, conveying the generated ROM material to an underground ore screening plant, screening the ROM material relative to a threshold size wherein the threshold size is a feed size of one or more flotation cells at a surface processing plant, mixing ‘fines’ material, comprising ROM material that is below the threshold size, with a saturated brine to create a slurry mixture wherein the saturated brine prevents the ‘fines’ material from dissolving into the slurry mixture, and pumping the slurry mixture to a surface location via one of a shaft and a borehole to the surface product separation plant.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 1  wherein the mixing step is performed underground, and the saturated brine descends for underground mixing in one or more pipes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 299.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15325029', '12679999', '15203651', '14062877', '13970119']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6669525798823055
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4930494184340113
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6495622637374762
- Mean Citation Score: 184.671004
- Max Citation Score: 221.42198
- Similarity Product: 159.10771874517917

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

Dataset: test