PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750783
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["345", "419000"]

Abstract:
The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating multiple correlated meshes around complex and discrete fractures for the purpose of reservoir simulation. In an initial two-stage process, a 2.5-dimensional mesher algorithm, may be used in conjunction with an extended anisotropic geometry-adaptive refinement algorithm to produce, from a structured grid Earth Model, a refined reservoir model. Fractures may be modeled as a volumetric mesh that is independent of the refined reservoir model. Thereafter, the two independent, overlapping meshes are combined by forming matrix-matrix, fracture-fracture, and matrix-fracture connections to form a single model to allow rapid simulation of an extremely complex fracture network with sufficiently accurate results.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 5 , wherein said establishing matrix-fracture connections further comprises:\n for each face, calculating said fracture and matrix transmissibility values as functions of the intersection of the corresponding original face of said surface fracture mesh with the face of said matrix mesh; determining a representative distance between the centroid of a cell in the matrix mesh and the intersecting face of the cell; and calculating the matrix transmissibility value for the face of the cell as a function of the representative distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.49398
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15517006', '15313933', '12630709', '13644479', '12920914']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6717328105345406
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5215288603907523
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6567124155201618
- Mean Citation Score: 241.679644
- Max Citation Score: 325.95148
- Similarity Product: 240.2899033138633

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

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