PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16074738
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["166", "280200"]

Abstract:
Method comprising introducing a proppant-free fluid into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation to create or enhance one or more fractures; providing binding agent-coated proppant comprising proppant coated with a binding agent; and introducing, in alternating order, a proppant-laden fluid and a spacer fluid into one or more of the fractures. The proppant-laden fluid comprises a base fluid and binding agent-coated proppant, and the spacer fluid comprises a base fluid and degradable ultra-low density particulates. And forming a proppant pack in the fracture, wherein the proppant pack comprises binding agent-coated proppant and degradable ultra-low density particulates; producing hydrocarbons through the proppant pack; wherein the hydrocarbons degrade the degradable ultra-low density particulates to leave behind particulate-free channels.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 2  wherein the non-degradable ultra-low density particulates comprise non-degradable ultra-low density particulates having a density of about 0.5 g/cc or less and selected from the group consisting of expanded cork, foamed particulates, non-degradable polymer particulates, or composite non-degradable particulates that comprise micro-bubble beads or glass bubbles, and combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26786
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15759197', '13595132', '13596662', '13926141', '15772795']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8153256103266472
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.503659551109304
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7841590044049129
- Mean Citation Score: 268.771272
- Max Citation Score: 276.19086
- Similarity Product: 187.51618240224843

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

Dataset: test