PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16239635
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["166", "367000"]

Abstract:
A method and equipment for harvesting natural gas from seabed hydrates are disclosed. The preferred equipment includes a mobile riser, a water injection nozzle, a gas collector, a gas separator, a gas compressor, a water pump, and a water boiler. A fraction of produced gas is used to heat water which is in turn injected to seafloor for dissociating gas hydrates. The preferred method of the invention comprises producing natural gas from seabed hydrates using a production ship with a moving riser installed. This method eliminates the need of drilling wells and thus cuts cost of gas production tremendously.

Claim (Index 10):
A system for harvesting natural gas from seabed gas hydrates comprising:\n a. a conduit with a submersible pump in connection with the sea at one end and with a water injection pump at the other end, so that said conduit transfers seawater to said water injection pump; b. a hot water heater in connection with said water injection pump wherein said water injection pump transfers said seawater to said hot water heater; c. a hose assembly in connection with said hot water heater and a seafloor wherein said hose assembly comprises a seawater injector and a gas intake at the seafloor end and an outtake on the other end; d. a liquid gas separator in connection with said hose assembly outtake, said gas liquid gas separator comprising a water phase outtake and a gaseous phase outtake; e. a compressor in connection with said liquid gas separator gaseous phase outtake; and f. a gas holding tank in connection with said compressor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80328
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13148990', '13156224', '10890040', '12441430', '12278692']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7563618401203821
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4321907282706485
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7239447289354087
- Mean Citation Score: 108.125005
- Max Citation Score: 117.82122
- Similarity Product: 96.20394150225162

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

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