PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164192
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["208", "298000"]

Abstract:
A petroleum desalting process in which the oil/water emulsion layer which forms in the desalter vessel between the settled water layer and the settled oil layer is separated into the oil and water components by contact with a heated high boiling hydrocarbon to break the emulsion and vaporize water from the emulsion in a flash drum. The vessel has an emulsion outlet for removing an emulsion stream from the emulsion layer and a conduit connecting the emulsion withdrawal port to an inlet of an optional settling drum to effect and initial separation into an oil-enriched phase and a water phase with the oil-enriched phase led to the flash drum.

Claim (Index 4):
A desalting process according to  claim 1  in which the hydrocarbon heating medium has an initial boiling point of at least 225\u00b0 C.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91379
- Patent Class: 208.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14467110', '15293750', '14279428', '15297480', '14185212']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7934907411743023
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5696967383180511
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7711113408886772
- Mean Citation Score: 401.16287
- Max Citation Score: 460.81494
- Similarity Product: 278.799474699676

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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