PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982374
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["136", "200000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus that uses a brine from a well that is used to both generate electricity and recover valuable minerals present in the brine. The method and apparatus uses a hydrophobic membrane to separate water vapor from the brine to concentrate the brine that is then used to recover the minerals.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for generating electricity and recovering a mineral from a brine comprising the steps of:\n a) providing a first brine comprising water, silica, one or more polyvalent ions, and at least one mineral from a well, wherein the first brine has a temperature below about 300\u00b0 C.; b) removing at least a portion of the water from the first brine by passing water vapor generated from the first brine through a first hydrophobic membrane, thereby producing a fourth brine, wherein the fourth brine is at least about 5% more concentrated in total solids than the first brine; c) contacting at least a portion of the water vapor that passed through the first hydrophobic membrane with a thermoelectric module, thereby generating electricity; d) removing at least a portion of the silica and removing at least a portion of the one or more polyvalent ions from the fourth brine, thereby producing a fifth brine; e) removing at least a portion of the water from the fifth brine by passing water vapor generated from the fifth brine through a second hydrophobic membrane, thereby producing a sixth brine, wherein the sixth brine has a higher concentration of the at least one mineral than the fifth brine; and f) recovering at least a portion of the at least one mineral from the sixth brine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8125
- Patent Class: 136.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15138554', '14832455', '11189213', '15731637', '15223938']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7555163140645542
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5092240952703467
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7308870921851335
- Mean Citation Score: 184.10344
- Max Citation Score: 314.36343
- Similarity Product: 290.10422443615795

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

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