PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15960457
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["166", "352000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, a system may include a harvesting unit configured to operate under water to traverse and extract gas from clathrate hydrate deposits. The harvesting unit can include a housing defining an enclosure at least partially open along a bottom portion to receive a clathrate slurry associated with a selected one of the clathrate hydrate deposits. The harvesting unit may further include a separator chamber within the housing defining a negative pressure and configured to receive the clathrate slurry and a skirt coupled to the enclosure adjacent to the bottom portion and configured to form a flexible barrier between the enclosure and an external environment. The skirt may be formed from a plurality of elements configured to allow fluid flow therethrough.

Claim (Index 16):
A system comprising:\n a harvesting unit configured to operate under water to traverse and extract gas from clathrate hydrate deposits, the harvesting unit including:\n a housing defining an enclosure at least partially open along a bottom portion to receive a clathrate slurry associated with a selected one of the clathrate hydrate deposits; \n a skirt coupled to the enclosure adjacent to the bottom portion and configured to form a flexible barrier between the enclosure and an external environment, the skirt formed from a plurality of elements configured to allow fluid flow therethrough; \n a propulsion system coupled to the housing; \n a clathrate hydrate extraction system at least partially beneath the housing and configured to cut a portion of the selected one of the clathrate hydrate deposits to form a slurry; \n a clathrate hydrate separation system within the housing; and \n a control system including a plurality of distributed controllers, each controller including one or more processors associated with one or more components of each of the propulsion system, the clathrate hydrate extraction system, and the clathrate hydrate separation system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86765
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13051919', '15766801', '13088728', '11475556', '12857228']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7725891179454211
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6213248374868493
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7574626898995639
- Mean Citation Score: 255.94402800000003
- Max Citation Score: 403.684
- Similarity Product: 310.82050301170347

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

Dataset: test