PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16435274
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["137", "008000"]

Abstract:
A method for facilitating the distribution of the flow of one or more streams within a bed vessel is provided. Disposed within the bed vessel are internal materials and structures including multiple operating zones. One type of operating zone can be a processing zone composed of one or more beds of solid processing material. Another type of operating zone can be a treating zone. Treating zones can facilitate the distribution of the one or more streams fed to processing zones. The distribution can facilitate contact between the feed streams and the processing materials contained in the processing zones.

Claim (Index 11):
A vessel for treating one or more process streams, the vessel comprising:\n an upstream processing zone containing one or more beds of processing materials; a downstream processing zone containing one or more beds of processing materials; and a redistribution zone located between the upstream processing zone and the downstream processing zone, the redistribution zone containing a plurality of treating elements capable of facilitating flow distribution of the one or more process streams, wherein the redistribution treating zone has a depth of four feet or less, and wherein the redistribution treating zone mitigates stream channeling of the streams exiting the upstream processing zone and affects lateral redistribution of the flow of the one or more streams within the downstream processing zone, and wherein the treating elements have a reticulated structure, and wherein the treating elements are up to 100 times the size of the individual processing materials within the process vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03922
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15720751', '15265405', '16379198', '15676603', '16105781']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8821468603388508
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5725636484477318
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8511885391497389
- Mean Citation Score: 475.99974800000007
- Max Citation Score: 493.99197
- Similarity Product: 476.58967285718313

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

Dataset: test