PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977048
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["210", "776000"]

Abstract:
Improved apparatus and methodologies for separating production water arising from conventional oil well production operations, the production water containing less than 1% oil-in-water, where the apparatus and methodologies may include the use of a large separation vessel configured to perform a phase separation mid-stream of a continuous fluid flow path, thereby increasing the overall retention time of the separation vessel.

Claim (Index 11):
The apparatus of  claim 9 , wherein the at least one first tank inlet and the at least one fluid conduits are each configured to introduce the production water along an entire height of the first and second fluid tanks, respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41304
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15714402', '14263076', '15709036', '14911386', '15224271']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7691076466937583
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5015716755304253
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.742354049577425
- Mean Citation Score: 196.767306
- Max Citation Score: 198.29112
- Similarity Product: 125.6935590091324

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

Dataset: test