PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15921388
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["166", "280100"]

Abstract:
Compositions for suspending proppants in a hydraulic fracture of a subterranean formation involve a carrier fluid, a plurality of proppants, and a plurality of compressible, three-dimensional anti-settling agents. A method of using the compositions includes hydraulically fracturing the subterranean formation to form fractures in the formation; during and/or after hydraulically fracturing the subterranean formation, introducing proppants into the fractures; during and/or after hydraulically fracturing the subterranean formation, introducing the compressible, three-dimensional anti-settling agents into the fractures where the agents are at least partially compressed before or during the introducing so that they may flow into the fractures. The compressed agents expand after they are in the fractures. The expanded three-dimensional anti-settling agents contact and inhibit or prevent the proppant from settling by gravity within the fractures. The method finally involves closing the fractures against the proppants.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1  where the compressible, three-dimensional anti-settling agents comprise a material selected from the group consisting of cotton, wool, silk, fiberglass, polyester, polyurethane, aramid, acrylic, nylon, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyamide, cellulose, polylactide, polyethylene terephthalate, rayon, metal foams, ceramic foams, polyvinyl alcohol, and combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19118
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12950226', '10954398', '14546301', '14845783', '15905352']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8573059893926346
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5068339684710799
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8222587873004791
- Mean Citation Score: 287.8243020000001
- Max Citation Score: 302.00433
- Similarity Product: 179.0914642445147

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

Dataset: test