PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16021441
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["585", "324000"]

Abstract:
In an aspect, the present disclosure provides a method for the oxidative coupling of methane to generate hydrocarbon compounds containing at least two carbon atoms (C 2+  compounds). The method can include mixing a first gas stream comprising methane with a second gas stream comprising oxygen to form a third gas stream comprising methane and oxygen and performing an oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) reaction using the third gas stream to produce a product stream comprising one or more C 2+  compounds.

Claim (Index 17):
A method for producing hydrocarbon compounds, comprising:\n (a) directing a feed stream comprising methane (CH 4 ) and an oxidizing agent into an oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) unit to generate from at least a portion of said CH 4  and said oxidizing agent an OCM effluent comprising said hydrocarbon compounds; (b) recovering a portion of said OCM effluent in one or more product streams; (c) directing an additional portion of said OCM effluent into a recycle loop that comprises (i) a hydrogenation unit that hydrogenates at least a portion of unsaturated hydrocarbons from said additional portion of said OCM effluent, and (ii) a methanation unit that reacts hydrogen (H 2 ) with carbon monoxide (CO) or carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from said additional portion of said OCM effluent in a methanation reaction to form CH 4 , wherein said recycle loop outputs a recycle stream comprising said CH 4  generated by said methanation unit; and (d) directing at least a portion of said recycle stream into said OCM unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67925
- Patent Class: 585.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14789946', '14592668', '15341551', '14789953', '15076480']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7526386615095544
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5663645497335461
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7340112503319536
- Mean Citation Score: 464.252214
- Max Citation Score: 474.55774
- Similarity Product: 369.88930638999705

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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