PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962805
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["208", "014000"]

Abstract:
Novel catalysts comprising nickel oxide nanoparticles supported on alumina nanoparticles, methods of their manufacture, heavy oil compositions contacted by these nanocatalysts and methods of their use are disclosed. The novel nanocatalysts are useful, inter alia, in the upgrading of heavy oil fractions or as aids in oil recovery from well reservoirs or downstream processing.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for providing an upgraded heavy oil fraction in a well comprising:\n contacting a heavy oil in a well producing the heavy oil with a nanocatalyst for a time and under intrinsic well temperature conditions sufficient to increase the H/C ratio; said nanocatalyst comprising:\n nickel oxide nanoparticles supported on alumina nanoparticles; \n wherein the alumina nanoparticle to nickel oxide nanoparticle weight to weight ratio in the catalyst is in a range of from about 99 to about 500; \n wherein the particle size of the alumina nanoparticle is in the range of from about 30 to about 100 nanometers; \n wherein the catalyst does not further comprise silver nanoparticles supported on the alumina nanoparticles; and \n wherein the alumina nanoparticles are present in an amount of at least 99% by weight of catalyst.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.36364
- Patent Class: 208.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15485662', '13896578', '11534595', '12733054', '13253053']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7271488482905472
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6258995931922449
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7170239227807169
- Mean Citation Score: 362.8666280000001
- Max Citation Score: 560.62354
- Similarity Product: 487.0207019070458

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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