PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16030768
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["210", "758000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to methods and apparatuses for treating a condensate stream from a condenser that contains odorous compounds, such as various condensate streams produced in a rendering process. In one embodiment, the condensate stream is treated by adding an oxidizer to the liquid condensate stream to oxidize odor-causing compounds in the stream prior to being treated in a waste water pre-treatment system. In this manner, the odor resulting from these compounds can be reduced or eliminated.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for reducing odor-causing compounds in a rendering process, comprising:\n condensing a first vapor stream produced in a rendering process comprising at least one vaporous odor-causing compound to condense at least a portion of said first vapor stream and said at least one vaporous odor-causing compound to produce a first condensate stream comprising at least one soluble odor-causing compound condensed from said first vapor stream; condensing at least a portion of a second vapor stream produced in a rendering process to produce a second condensate stream; mixing said first condensate stream and said second condensate stream to produce a combined condensate stream; adding an oxidizer to said combined condensate stream, thereby oxidizing said at least one soluble odor-causing compound condensed from said first vapor stream; and discharging said combined condensate stream from the rendering process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45614
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12684870', '14274682', '14660923', '14160138', '13797882']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8224794725886851
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5627492504519745
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7965064503750141
- Mean Citation Score: 364.92689600000006
- Max Citation Score: 466.7824
- Similarity Product: 384.780107541275

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

Dataset: test