PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868002
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["502", "164000"]

Abstract:
Catalysts for the dehydration of lactic acid, lactic acid derivatives, or mixtures thereof to acrylic acid, acrylic acid derivatives, or mixtures thereof in liquid phase comprising an ionic liquid (IL) and an acid are provided.

Claim (Index 1):
A catalyst for making acrylic acid, acrylic acid derivatives, or mixtures thereof by dehydrating lactic acid, lactic acid derivatives, or mixtures thereof; wherein said catalyst is a molten salt and comprises an ionic liquid (IL) and an acid; wherein said IL has a bromide anion (Br \u2212 ); wherein said acid is soluble in said IL and selected from the group consisting of Lewis acid, Br\u00f8nsted acid, and mixtures thereof; wherein said Lewis acid is selected from the group consisting of CaBr 2 , MgBr 2 , AlBr 3 , CuBr 2 , and mixtures thereof; and wherein said Br\u00f8nsted acid has a pK a  less than about 5 in water at 25\u00b0 C.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55556
- Patent Class: 502.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15661016', '13760472', '14515704', '13839986', '13838692']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.782802149970883
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.603088953648709
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7648308303386657
- Mean Citation Score: 304.353364
- Max Citation Score: 533.49567
- Similarity Product: 453.2825426257843

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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