PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15888777
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["585", "324000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides methods for producing hydrocarbon compounds, which may comprise directing a feed stream comprising methane (CH 4 ) and an oxidizing agent into an oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) unit to generate from at least a portion of the CH 4  and the oxidizing agent an OCM effluent comprising the hydrocarbon compounds. A portion of the OCM effluent may be directed into a recycle loop that comprises (i) a hydrogenation unit that hydrogenates at least a portion of unsaturated hydrocarbons from the additional portion of the OCM effluent, and (ii) a methanation unit that reacts hydrogen with carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide from the additional portion of the OCM effluent in a methanation reaction to form CH 4 . The recycle loop may output a recycle stream comprising the CH 4  generated by the methanation unit. At least a portion of the recycle stream may be directed into the OCM unit.

Claim (Index 14):
A process for production of hydrocarbons, the process comprising the steps of:\n converting at least a feed stream comprising methane (CH 4 ) and oxygen (O 2 ) feed into a conversion effluent by oxidative coupling of methane (OCM); withdrawing one or more product streams from said conversion effluent by at least one product retrieval stage; recycling at least a portion of said remaining conversion effluent as a recycle stream in a recycle loop, said recycle loop comprising a hydrogenation stage and a methanation stage; and adding at least part of said recycle stream to said feed stream.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 77.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33803
- Patent Class: 585.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14592668', '14789946', '15341551', '14789953', '15076480']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7540682495154416
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5777233149862263
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.73643375606252
- Mean Citation Score: 470.394958
- Max Citation Score: 488.49075
- Similarity Product: 374.4810914770066

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

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