PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875267
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["423", "179500"]

Abstract:
A process ( 10 ) for the treatment of a lithium containing material, the process comprising the steps of: (i) Preparing a process solution from the lithium containing material ( 12 ); (ii) Passing the process solution from step (i) to a series of impurity removal steps ( 36 ) thereby providing a substantially purified lithium chloride solution; and (iii) Passing the purified lithium chloride solution of step (ii) to an electrolysis step ( 70 ) thereby producing a lithium hydroxide solution.

Claim (Index 9):
The process of  claim 1 , wherein water evaporated from the lithium hydroxide solution produced in step (iii) is recompressed, combined with make-up steam and recycled to evaporation/crystallisation as a heating medium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20455
- Patent Class: 423.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15514688', '14950153', '14378175', '13462698', '12991848']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7892018557043855
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5242319213864731
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7627048622725943
- Mean Citation Score: 248.180288
- Max Citation Score: 319.18613
- Similarity Product: 245.05512117193817

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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