PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949207
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["210", "688000"]

Abstract:
A system may include a reactor, in which an anaerobic environment exists, that includes a slurry of at least contaminated water and a mixed bacterial culture of facultative bacteria and anaerobic bacteria. The mixed bacterial culture may be suspended within the slurry. The contaminated water may include contaminants associated with a non-metal, a metal, or a metalloid. The mixed bacterial culture may react with the contaminated water to reduce or remove the contaminants from the contaminated water to create a treated slurry. The reactor may output the treated slurry. The system may also include a filtration device to receive the treated slurry; remove, from the treated slurry, the mixed bacterial culture and the contaminants, reduced or removed from the contaminated water, to create treated water; and output the treated water. The system may also include an aeration device to add dissolved oxygen to the treated water, and output the treated water. The system may also include a reaction device where iron or aluminum salts are added to remove phosphorous, selenite, arsenate, or other contaminants which adsorb onto iron or aluminum oxyhydroxide solids. The system may also include a filtration device to remove the solids from the water, and output the treated water.

Claim (Index 1):
An anaerobic treatment system to treat contaminated water, the treatment system comprising:\n a reactor consisting of one or more chambers providing an anaerobic environment, the one or more reactors comprising:\n a slurry of contaminated water comprising one or more contaminants selected from the group consisting of a perchlorate, a metal, or a metalloid; and \n a mixed bacterial culture suspended within the slurry and not attached to a physical substrate associated with attached growth technology, wherein the mixed bacterial culture comprises:\n metal-reducing bacteria; and \n a mixing system that mixes the slurry to maintain the mixed bacterial culture and/or other solids within the one or more reactors in suspension; and \n \n a means for adding separately to the one or more reactors or to the influent contaminated water an organic material selected from the group consisting of a low molecular weight organic acid, and a simple carbohydrate wherein the organic material acts as an electron donor for the mixed bacterial culture and thus enables the mixed bacterial culture to react with the contaminated water to biologically and/or chemically reduce and precipitate the contaminants in the contaminated water; wherein biological and/or chemical reduction and precipitation of the contaminants occurs in the anaerobic environment in the one or more reactors; and a filtration device that retains the mixed bacterial culture.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.05405
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14558907', '12666625', '11288713', '10205816', '12832723']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7839189039204115
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6272968060691844
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7682566941352889
- Mean Citation Score: 301.63065399999994
- Max Citation Score: 578.2081
- Similarity Product: 565.6533879478574

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

Dataset: test