PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16257950
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["127", "044000"]

Abstract:
Preferred embodiments of the present invention comprise the optional application of concentrations of an aqueous permanganate solution, such as an approximately 0.01% A to approximately 50% liquid permanganate solution and preferably comprising approximately 20% sodium permanganate dosed at approximately 1 ppm to approximately 100 ppm to harvested sugar crops, such as sugarcane, sugar beets, and sweet sorghum, at one or more of the sugar processing steps for the crops. The steps where the liquid sodium permanganate may optionally be applied include at a sugar crop cutting step, a sugar crop conveying step, a sugar juice extraction step, a sugar juice clarifying step, and a clarifier muds filtration step. The application of liquid sodium permanganate in the processing of sugar from sugar crops results in reduced equipment fouling, reduced loss in juice purity, reduced scale formation, decreased turbidity in clarified juices, increased sugarcane processing rates, reduced sugar crop production costs, increased sugar product yield, and increased production capacity.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for improving production of sugar from sugar crops, the method comprising the steps of:\n (i) preparing a sugar crop to form a prepared sugar crop for milling in a sugar mill to extract sugar therefrom; (ii) optionally applying a first application of an aqueous permanganate solution to the prepared sugar crop; (iii) conveying the prepared sugar crop to the sugar mill; (iv) optionally applying a second application of the aqueous permanganate solution to the prepared sugar crop as the prepared sugar crop is being conveyed to the sugar mill; (v) processing the prepared sugar crop in a tandem mill of the sugar mill to form a processed sugar crop; (vi) optionally applying a third application of the aqueous permanganate solution to the processed sugar crop at the tandem mill and/or to the imbibition water used to wash the processed sugar crop at the tandem mills; (vii) forming cush cush and extracting sugar juice from the processed sugar crop to form extracted sugar juice; (viii) optionally applying a fourth application of the aqueous permanganate solution to the cush cush; (ix) optionally applying a fifth application of the aqueous solution comprising a permanganate to the extracted sugar juice; (x) clarifying the extracted sugar juice in a clarifier to form clarified sugar juice and clarifier muds; (xi) filtering the clarifier muds to form clarifier muds filtrate; and (xii) optionally applying a sixth application of the aqueous permanganate solution to the clarifier muds filtrate; wherein at least one of the optionally applying steps (ii), (iv), (vi), (viii), (ix), and (xii) is performed; wherein the aqueous permanganate solution comprises approximately 10% to approximately 30% by weight permanganate; wherein the aqueous permanganate solution comprising permanganate is dosed in concentration ranging from approximately 1 parts per million to approximately 100 parts per million.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05747
- Patent Class: 127.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12672634', '14456076', '13587857', '11445570', '16163365']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6533462575749132
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5289122233538819
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6409028541528101
- Mean Citation Score: 231.174014
- Max Citation Score: 251.46008
- Similarity Product: 194.85112998157496

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

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