PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16287482
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["422", "187000"]

Abstract:
Refining assemblies and methods for refining rich natural gas containing a first methane gas and other hydrocarbons that are heavier than methane gas are disclosed. In some embodiments, the assemblies may include a methane-producing assembly configured to receive at least one liquid-containing feed stream that includes water and rich natural gas and to produce an output stream therefrom by (a) converting at least a substantial portion of the other hydrocarbons of the rich natural gas with the water to a second methane gas, a lesser portion of the water, and other gases, and (b) allowing at least a substantial portion of the first methane gas from the rich natural gas to pass through the methane-producing assembly unconverted. The assemblies may additionally include a purification assembly configured to receive the output stream and to produce a methane-rich stream therefrom having a greater methane concentration than the output stream.

Claim (Index 20):
A refining assembly for rich natural gas containing a first methane gas and other hydrocarbons that are heavier than methane gas, comprising:\n a vaporizer configured to receive and vaporize at least a portion of at least one liquid-containing feedstream that includes water and rich natural gas to form an at least substantially vaporized stream; a methane-producing reactor containing a catalyst and configured to receive the at least substantially vaporized feed stream and to produce an output stream by (a) converting at least a substantial portion of the other hydrocarbons with the water to a second methane gas, a lesser portion of the water, hydrogen gas, and carbon oxide gas, and (b) allowing at least a substantial portion of the first methane gas from the rich natural gas stream to pass through the methane-producing reactor unconverted; and a first heating assembly configured to receive at least one fuel stream and at least one air stream and to produce a heated exhaust stream for heating the vaporizer to at least a minimum vaporization temperature and the methane-producing reactor to at least a minimum methane-producing temperature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28986
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14820256', '14937629', '15717591', '14734763', '16050847']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8575769868842928
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5687400012151728
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8286932883173808
- Mean Citation Score: 430.811236
- Max Citation Score: 476.8274
- Similarity Product: 471.8677995150566

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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