PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16026493
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["435", "099000"]

Abstract:
An improved dry grind system and method for producing a sugar stream from grains or similar carbohydrate sources and/or residues, such as for biofuel production. In particular, a sugar/carbohydrate stream, which includes a desired Dextrose Equivalent (DE) where DE describes the degree of conversion of starch to dextrose (aka glucose) and/or has had removed therefrom an undesirable amount of unfermentable components, can be produced after saccharification and prior to fermentation (or other sugar conversion process), with such sugar stream being available for biofuel production, e.g., alcohol production, or other processes. In addition, the systems and methods also can involve the removal of certain grain components, e.g., corn kernel components, including protein, oil and/or fiber, prior to fermentation or other conversion systems. In other words, sugar stream production and/or grain component separation occurs on the front end of the system and method.

Claim (Index 17):
A method for producing a sugar stream comprising:\n mixing ground grain and/or grain components with a liquid to produce a slurry including starch and unfermentable components; subjecting the slurry to liquefaction followed by saccharification to convert the starch to simple sugars and produce a stream including the simple sugars and unfermentable components; and after saccharification but prior to further processing of the simple sugars, separating the stream into a solids portion including unfermentable components and a liquid portion including the simple sugars, followed by separating out residual protein from the liquid portion, wherein the liquid portion, after separating out the residual protein, has a dextrose equivalent of at least 20 D.E. and a total unfermentable solids fraction that is less than or equal to 30% of the total solids content, and thereafter microfiltering the liquid portion to filter out additional insoluble components, wherein the liquid portion, after microfiltering, defines a sugar stream having a total unfermentable solids fraction that is less than or equal to 10% of the totals solids content.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78495
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15230280', '15074417', '15957242', '14690509', '13428263']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6974835974013119
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6106347247049319
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6887987101316739
- Mean Citation Score: 492.285602
- Max Citation Score: 583.9625
- Similarity Product: 505.65193367674937

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

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