PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983886
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["208", "039000"]

Abstract:
A method is disclosed for the retrieval and recovery of organic-based or organic-containing materials, including naturally occurring substances such as crude oil, and other petroleum-based or containing materials, natural gas, and the like, from environments where they are entrained within or otherwise admixed or complexed with other organic or inorganic materials, such as rock, sand, shale and the like. The method comprises: (a) retrieving a quantity of the petroleum-containing mixture, (b) treating the petroleum-containing mixture with a solvent for the petroleum material to separate the petroleum material from the mixture and (c) recovering the petroleum-containing material separated in step (b). The method also includes the reclamation or recycling of asphalt or asphalt components to produce reusable asphalt or asphalt components featuring (a) providing crushed asphalt or asphalt components, and (b) adding the asphalt or asphalt components to a solvent in which the asphalt binder is soluble. The solvent may be at approximately ambient temperature and may be, for instance, heptane, hexane, naphtha, kerosene, gasoline or a petroleum based solvent or any other suitable solvent in which the asphalt binder is soluble.

Claim (Index 7):
The method according to  claim 1  further comprising\n d) cleaning or removing asphalt binder and/or the solvent from the coarse aggregate and fine aggregate asphalt components screened or separated in step c).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18367
- Patent Class: 208.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15520548', '15245503', '14984842', '14364862', '14364805']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7244098344191271
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.518209152467977
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.703789766224012
- Mean Citation Score: 225.631388
- Max Citation Score: 248.29755
- Similarity Product: 163.04346311251226

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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