PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16068776
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["166", "280200"]

Abstract:
Compositions for suspending proppants in a hydraulic fracture of a subterranean formation involve a carrier fluid, a plurality of proppants, and a plurality of fabric pieces where each fabric includes a plurality of connected filaments. A method of using the compositions includes hydraulically fracturing the subterranean formation to form fractures in the formation; during and/or after hydraulically fracturing the subterranean formation, introducing proppants into the fractures; during and/or after hydraulically fracturing the subterranean formation, introducing fabric in the form of fabric pieces into the fractures, where the fabric contacts and inhibits or prevents the proppant from settling by gravity within the fractures; and closing the fractures against the proppants. Optionally a portion of the fabric pieces may be hydrolyzed. In another option, the fabric pieces may each comprise at least one shape changing filament.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of suspending proppants in a hydraulic fracture of a subterranean formation, the method comprising:\n hydraulically fracturing the subterranean formation to form fractures in the formation; during and/or after hydraulically fracturing the subterranean formation, introducing proppants into the fractures; during and/or after hydraulically fracturing the subterranean formation, introducing a plurality of fabric pieces into the fractures, the fabric pieces contacting and inhibiting or preventing the proppant from settling by gravity within the fractures, where the fabric pieces comprise a plurality of connected filaments; and closing the fractures against the proppants.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16176
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14870880', '14546301', '10865315', '14845783', '14324056']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.787469591185487
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.510169134546098
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7597395455215481
- Mean Citation Score: 316.73937400000005
- Max Citation Score: 325.1539
- Similarity Product: 215.32548978796603

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

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