PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961500
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["175", "024000"]

Abstract:
A smart system for circulating LCM can implement a method. While a wellbore is being drilled in a geologic formation, drilling parameters identifying wellbore drilling conditions of a wellbore drilling system drilling the wellbore are received. The wellbore drilling system flows a wellbore drilling fluid including particulates of different size distributions. The particulates operate as LCM to reduce loss of the wellbore drilling fluid in the geologic formation. Size distributions of the particulates in the wellbore drilling fluid flowing through multiple different wellbore fluid flow pathways of the wellbore drilling system are received. The size distributions represent a concentration of the particulates in the wellbore drilling fluid. A release of certain particulates into the wellbore drilling fluid is controlled based, in part, on the received drilling parameters and the received size distributions of the particulates.

Claim (Index 1):
A wellbore drilling system comprising:\n a plurality of particulate size distribution analyzers, each particulate size distribution analyzer configured to determine a size distribution of particulates in a wellbore drilling fluid circulated through the wellbore drilling system, each particulate size distribution analyzer coupled to a respective wellbore drilling fluid flow pathway, the particulates comprising lost circulation material (LCM) configured to reduce loss of the wellbore drilling fluid into a geologic formation in which the wellbore is being drilled; a particulates reservoir coupled to the plurality of particulate size distribution analyzers, the particulates reservoir configured to carry particulates of different physical properties, the particulates reservoir configured to release certain particulates into a drilling fluid tank of the wellbore drilling system to be mixed with the wellbore drilling fluid circulated through the drilling fluid tank; and a processing system coupled to the plurality of particulate size distribution analyzers and to the particulates reservoir, the processing system configured to perform operations while drilling the wellbore, the operations comprising:\n receiving drilling parameters identifying wellbore drilling conditions of the wellbore drilling system; \n receiving size distributions of particulates in the wellbore drilling fluid from the plurality of particulate size distribution analyzers; and \n controlling the particulates reservoir to release the certain particulates into the drilling fluid tank based, in part, on the received drilling parameters and the received size distributions of the particulates.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54386
- Patent Class: 175.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13646306', '14250557', '12663470', '11552347', '12363493']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6905531782295022
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4703314680626837
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6685310072128204
- Mean Citation Score: 206.908466
- Max Citation Score: 220.64212
- Similarity Product: 164.94591144452096

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

Dataset: test