PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037314
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["264", "004000"]

Abstract:
A method for increasing production in a liquid hydrocarbon reservoir formation comprising the steps of introducing a nanoencapsulated composition solution capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid hydrocarbon fraction, where the nanoencapsulated composition solution comprises a nanocapsule and a carrier fluid, such that the nanocapsule is dispersed in the carrier fluid; allowing the nanoencapsulated composition solution to interact with the liquid hydrocarbon fraction such that the surface tension of the liquid hydrocarbon fraction is reduced such that at least a portion of the liquid hydrocarbon fraction is capable of being displaced; introducing a water fraction into the wellbore under conditions such that at least a portion of the liquid hydrocarbon fraction is displaced from the liquid hydrocarbon reservoir formation; and recovering the at least a portion of the liquid hydrocarbon fraction and at least a portion of the nanoencapsulated composition solution using the wellbore.

Claim (Index 1):
A coacervation method of forming a nanocapsule for use in a nanocapsulated composition solution, the coacervation method comprising the steps of:\n (a) mixing an aqueous-phase chemical with water to form an aqueous phase, wherein the aqueous-phase chemical comprises gelatin; (b) mixing a solvent-phase monomer with a solvent and one or more surfactants to form a solvent phase; (c) mixing the solvent phase in the aqueous phase, such that the solvent phase forms droplets dispersed in the aqueous phase to form a mixture, wherein the droplets have a surface; (d) adding a precipitating agent to the mixture, the precipitating agent operable to reduce a solubility of the aqueous-phase chemical in the mixture such that the aqueous-phase chemical is capable of precipitating from the mixture; (e) allowing the aqueous-phase chemical to precipitate from the mixture to form a precipitating aqueous-phase chemical, wherein the precipitating aqueous-phase chemical deposits on the surface of the droplets to form a deposited aqueous-phase chemical; and (f) allowing the deposited aqueous-phase chemical to form a polymer shell around the droplets, wherein the polymer shell is formed by the crosslinking of the deposited aqueous-phase chemical.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76364
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16037263', '15093923', '15977131', '13015350', '16026345']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7615622964438384
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5491632557726045
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.740322392376715
- Mean Citation Score: 266.06765
- Max Citation Score: 397.87384
- Similarity Product: 358.2488002863884

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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