PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037864
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["702", "011000"]

Abstract:
Techniques for determining geometries of hydraulic fractures include identifying a data structure that includes data associated with hydraulic fracture identifiers and observed fluid pressures, at least one of the hydraulic fracture identifiers representing a first hydraulic fracture formed from a monitor wellbore into a subsurface rock formation and at least another of the hydraulic fracture identifiers representing a second hydraulic fracture formed from a treatment wellbore into the subsurface rock formation, at least one of the observed fluid pressures includes a pressure change in a fluid in the first hydraulic fracture that is induced by formation of the second hydraulic fracture; performing a single- or multi-objective, non-linear constrained optimization analysis to minimize at least one objective function associated with the observed fluid pressures; and based on minimizing the at least one objective function, determining respective sets of hydraulic fracture geometries associated with at least one of the first hydraulic fracture or the second hydraulic fracture.

Claim (Index 16):
A computer-implemented method for determining geometries of hydraulic fractures, comprising:\n (i) searching, with one or more hardware processors, memory in communication with the one or more hardware processors for a data structure stored in the memory; (ii) extracting, with one or more hardware processors, data from the data structure, the data comprising a plurality of hydraulic fracture identifiers and a plurality of observed poromechanically induced fluid pressures, at least one of the plurality of hydraulic fracture identifiers represents a first hydraulic fracture formed from a monitor wellbore that extends from a terranean surface into a subsurface rock formation and at least another of the plurality of hydraulic fracture identifiers represents a second hydraulic fracture formed from a treatment wellbore that extends from the terranean surface into the subsurface rock formation, at least one of the plurality of observed poromechanically induced fluid pressures comprising a pressure change in a fluid in the first hydraulic fracture that is induced by formation of the second hydraulic fracture; (iii) performing, with the one or more hardware processors, a single- or multi-objective, non-linear constrained optimization analysis to minimize at least one objective function associated with the plurality of observed poromechanically induced fluid pressures; (iv) based on minimizing the at least one objective function, determining, with the one or more hardware processors, respective sets of hydraulic fracture geometries associated with at least one of the first hydraulic fracture or the second hydraulic fracture; and (v) preparing, with the one or more hardware processors, the determined plurality of fracture geometry data for presentation through a graphical user interface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49231
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15915303', '15201470', '14133687', '15192218', '14896685']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.196980206859991
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5909184775707783
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2363740339310698
- Mean Citation Score: 316.522896
- Max Citation Score: 498.54507
- Similarity Product: 440.7616559473729

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

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