PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16237000
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["210", "610000"]

Abstract:
A treatment process for municipal, commercial, industrial, and institutional fluids containing one or more substances at a first concentration includes a contactor, an aerator, and a separator. The fluid is mixed with a powdered natural lignocellulosic material (“PNLM”), a microbial growth inoculum, and at least a portion of the fluid in the contactor to provide a mixture that includes an established, acclimated microbial growth in the fluid. The mixture is introduced to an aerator where physical binding and chemical bonding of at least some of the one or more substances to the PNLM additionally physiological uptake by microbial growth in a biosludge reduces the concentration of at least some of the one or more substances in the fluid discharged from the aerator to a second concentration. The biosludge is separated to recover at least a portion of the PNLM that is recycled to the contactor.

Claim (Index 1):
A system to treat a fluid including one or more substances at a first concentration, the system comprising:\n (a) an aerator including:\n (i) at least one inlet connection to receive a portion of a fluid containing the one or more substances at the first concentration; \n (ii) at least one inlet connection to receive a mixture that includes a portion of the fluid containing the one or more substances at the first concentration, a biological growth media and a microbial growth; \n (iii) at least one inlet connection to receive an oxygen containing gas; \n (iv) at least one gas dispersion system to disperse the oxygen containing gas into the mixture to aerobically stimulate the formation of biosludge that includes at least microbial growth and biological growth media through the physiological consumption of at least a portion of the one or more substances by at least a portion of the microbial growth within the aerator; \n (v) at least one outlet connection to exhaust at least a portion of the fluid including some or all of the one or more substances at a second concentration, the second concentration being less than the first concentration; and \n (vi) at least one outlet connection to exhaust a first portion of a biosludge blanket formed in the aerator and return the first portion of the biosludge blanket to the aerator; and \n (c) a separator to apportion a remaining portion of the biosludge blanket formed in the aerator into a separated biological growth media-rich component comprising at least about 60 wt % biological growth media and a biological component, the separator including:\n (i) at least one inlet connection fluidly coupled to the aerator to receive the remaining portion of the biosludge blanket exhausted by the aerator; \n (ii) at least one liquid/solid separations stage to apportion the remaining portion of the biosludge blanket into a fluid-rich portion and a biosludge-rich portion; \n (iii) at least one solid/solid separations stage to apportion at least some of the biosludge-rich portion into the separated biological growth media-rich component and a microbial growth-rich biological component; \n (iv) at least one discharge connection to exhaust the portion of the fluid-rich portion; \n (v) at least one discharge connection to exhaust the microbial growth-rich biological component from the system; and \n (vi) at least one discharge connection to exhaust at least a portion of the separated biological growth media-rich component to the aerator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20548
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14519842', '12250053', '08309868', '11284792', '15559635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7724512338256393
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5985536688895926
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7550614773320345
- Mean Citation Score: 254.142654
- Max Citation Score: 547.5692
- Similarity Product: 463.95900212903024

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

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