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 13):
The apparatus of  claim 9 , wherein the at least one second fluid tank outlet comprises skimmers for recovering the oil from the surface of the water phase.

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): 0.7713415753323796
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4890362992827267
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7431110477274143
- Mean Citation Score: 196.767306
- Max Citation Score: 198.29112
- Similarity Product: 144.12392405003072

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