PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895317
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["062", "611000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for optimizing the recondensation of boiloff gas in liquid natural gas storage tanks are presented. In especially preferred aspects of the inventive subject matter, BOG from a storage tank is condensed using refrigeration content of a portion of LNG sendout in a direct or indirect manner, and the BOG condensate and LNG sendout portion are combined to form a subcooled stream that is then combined with the balance of the LNG sendout, to be fed to a high pressure pump. Contemplated recondensation operations advantageously occur without using otherwise needed large volume recondensers. Moreover, the condensing and subcooling operations are decoupled from the LNG sendout rate.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising controlling pressure applied to the subcooled BOG/LNG stream using a second portion of the compressed BOG.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.61111
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13685201', '12936070', '15024285', '12281464', '14004669']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8416316150320557
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6256664522028144
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8200350987491316
- Mean Citation Score: 382.998014
- Max Citation Score: 666.72546
- Similarity Product: 516.0177999937105

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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