PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859728
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["562", "577000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the isolation of levulinic acid from an organic solution, comprising washing said organic solution with an alkaline aqueous stream to yield a washed organic solution; subjecting the washed organic solution to a distillation to yield a distillate and a distillation residue; and recovering levulinic acid from the distillate or the residue. This process may result in high yields of levulinic acid.

Claim (Index 16):
The process of  claim 15 , wherein the alkaline aqueous stream comprises a liquor stream from a paper plant.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78049
- Patent Class: 562.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14904775', '14648437', '14786776', '14355629', '14748278']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7426358542479106
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5286163120668147
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7212339000298009
- Mean Citation Score: 256.94887
- Max Citation Score: 333.39685
- Similarity Product: 249.128378614369

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

Dataset: test