PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950980
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["422", "307000"]

Abstract:
A system of fluid sterilization of fluid of vessel is provided, such as sterilization of ballast water for a water vessel. The system incorporates a heating section to heat pressurized fluid above prescribed thresholds for temperature, pressure, and duration (e.g., dwell time) to achieve desired levels of sterilization, including a heat exchanger to both (a) preheat fluid prior to entering the heating section and (b) cool outflow of the heating apparatus, in which fluid travels through the apparatus by operating valves forward and aft of the heating section in a controlled sequence to facilitate flow through the system while maintaining prescribed pressure and temperature profiles. The system operates within prescribed ranges of pressure and temperature to achieve the desired level of sterilization without need of maintaining a fixed temperature or a fixed pressure within any portion of the system, including the heating section.

Claim (Index 4):
The system for fluid sterilization as defined in  claim 1 , wherein the heating section includes therein a plurality of flow path sections configured in parallel, each flow path sections coupled to the source of waste heat.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15664868', '15249097', '10618133', '12119480', '13374190']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7958304868142543
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5385349286245632
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7701009309952852
- Mean Citation Score: 280.11010600000003
- Max Citation Score: 393.32816
- Similarity Product: 339.5716981941319

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

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