PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029915
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["210", "739000"]

Abstract:
A system and method of treating a fluid to be used for hydraulic fracturing adds an effective amount of chlorine dioxide to the fluid to act as a biocide that kills harmful bacteria. A system for adding chlorine dioxide to the fluid can continuously add chlorine dioxide to an incoming flow of the fluid to produce a continuous flow of treated fluid.

Claim (Index 7):
A method of treating a fluid used for hydraulic fracturing, comprising:\n obtaining chlorine dioxide; diverting a predetermined flow rate of a continuously supplied fluid that is to be used for hydraulic fracturing from a main supply pipe to a treatment unit; adding a substantially constant flow rate of the obtained chlorine dioxide to the diverted flow of fluid to create a flow of treated fluid; delivering the flow of treated fluid back into the main supply pipe; periodically testing fluid drawn from the main supply pipe at a location that is downstream from where the treated fluid is delivered back into the main supply pipe, and after at least some of the chlorine dioxide has been consumed in reactions with bacteria and/or biological contaminants that were originally present in the fluid, to determine a concentration of the chlorine dioxide in the tested fluid; and selectively adjusting the flow rate of the fluid that is diverted from the main supply pipe into the treatment unit based on the result of the testing step such that a residual concentration of chlorine dioxide remaining in the fluid after the chlorine dioxide has had an opportunity to react with bacteria and/or biological contaminants is in the range of 0.1 to 25 parts per million.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68421
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14020495', '15150228', '14106052', '13837936', '15403873']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7514173771849122
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5031150645517862
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7265871459215996
- Mean Citation Score: 219.922172
- Max Citation Score: 302.26227
- Similarity Product: 297.25209911176444

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

Dataset: test