PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900702
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["060", "641120"]

Abstract:
The disclosed technology includes methods of extracting geothermal energy, generally comprising the steps of: insertion of a thermal mass into a Heat Absorption Zone, absorbing heat in thermal mass, raising the thermal mass to a Heat Transfer Zone, and transferring the heat from the thermal mass. The acquired heat can be used to generate electricity or to drive an industrial process. The thermal mass can have internal chambers containing a liquid such as molten salt, and can also have structures facilitating heat exchange using a thermal exchange fluid, such as a gas or a glycol-based fluid. In some embodiments, two thermal masses are used as counterweights, reducing the energy consumed in bringing the heat in the thermal masses to the surface. In other embodiments, solid or molten salt can be directly supplied to a well shaft to acquire geothermal heat and returned to the surface in a closed loop system.

Claim (Index 4):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein the thermal mass comprises an internal channel to allow a thermal transfer fluid to flow through the thermal mass; and a first connector to enable the insertion of the thermal transfer fluid into the thermal mass;\n a second connector to enable the removal of the thermal transfer fluid out of the thermal mass; one or more temperature sensors comprising one or more of a platinum resistance thermometer and a dual metal thermostat; one or more pressure sensors; one or more accelerometers; and one or more of: infrared sensors; acoustic sensors; optical sensors; and fluorescence sensors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98795
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14877568', '13815266', '13999707', '14154767', '13911635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.700848521265397
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5644110452165504
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6872047736605124
- Mean Citation Score: 309.689572
- Max Citation Score: 465.94064
- Similarity Product: 397.33013246513366

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

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