PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042529
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["588", "017000"]

Abstract:
A system and method of disposing nuclear waste and other hazardous waste includes means for, and the steps of, blending a waste stream, which includes either a radioactive waste or a hazardous waste (or both), with a liquid and, optionally, a solid material to produce a dense fluid and pumping the dense fluid into a tubing string of an injection boring. The dense fluid then exits a perforation in a casing of the injection boring and enters a fracture in a rock strata, where it continues to propagate downward until it reaches an immobilization point. The dense fluid may be a slurry formed by a metal and a cross-linked polymer gel or hydrated clay slurry. The metal can be one that has a melting temperature less than the temperature at the bottom of the injection boring. The solid material could also be other nuclear waste or a radionuclide.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for creating a vertical downward propagating fracture in a rock formation, the system comprising:\n a fluid denser than a rock formation into which the fluid is to be disposed, wherein when the fluid is disposed in the rock formation, the fluid causes the vertical downward propagating fracture in the rock formation; said fracture continuing to propagate vertically downward as the fluid propagates vertically downward in said fracture until an immobilization point of the fluid is reached.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88372
- Patent Class: 588.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15344243', '14129504', '14942643', '15682238', '15262881']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6549405377712927
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4934624050336569
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6387927244975291
- Mean Citation Score: 251.721358
- Max Citation Score: 270.66174
- Similarity Product: 232.74238452583555

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

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