PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037277
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["166", "302000"]

Abstract:
A method of extracting hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation comprises forming a suspension comprising reactive particles and a carrier fluid. The suspension is introduced into a subterranean formation containing a hydrocarbon material. At least a portion of the reactive particles are exothermically reacted with at least one other material within the subterranean formation to form a treated hydrocarbon material from the hydrocarbon material. The treated hydrocarbon material is extracted from the subterranean formation. An additional method of extracting hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation, and a method of treating a hydrocarbon material within a subterranean formation are also described.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of treating a hydrocarbon material within a subterranean formation, comprising:\n forming a suspension comprising:\n discrete functionalized nanoparticles exothermically reactive with water, each of the discrete functionalized nanoparticles comprising:\n a core comprising anhydrous AlCl 3 , \n a shell directly on and completely encapsulating the core and comprising one or more of an aluminum-containing material and an organic material; and \n functional groups attached to the shell and selected from the group consisting of carboxy groups, ether groups, ketone groups, amine groups, hydroxy groups, alkoxy groups, alkyl groups, aryl groups, aralkyl groups; alkaryl groups, lactone groups, imidazole groups, pyridine groups, and fluorinated groups; and \n \n a liquid comprising one or more of water and an organic material; \n providing the suspension into interstitial spaces of a subterranean formation containing a hydrocarbon material to form an emulsion stabilized by the discrete functionalized nanoparticles; and reacting at least a portion of the discrete functionalized nanoparticles of the stabilized emulsion within the subterranean formation to produce heat and modify at least one property of the hydrocarbon material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16667
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14088339', '14088331', '14744520', '14519496', '14289873']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7859225489511025
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5116270181907248
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7584929958750647
- Mean Citation Score: 249.734308
- Max Citation Score: 344.42825
- Similarity Product: 292.2286107391417

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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