PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947013
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["546", "279400"]

Abstract:
This invention describes a method to extract and separate compounds from plant or animal material in a continuous process. The method uses dimethyl ether as a safe and efficient solvent which will extract polar and non-polar compounds. The extracted compounds are separated by distillation which is configured to provide individual compounds or groups of compounds.

Claim (Index 1):
A process to use dimethyl ether as a solvent to continuously extract soluble compounds from Plantae sp. or Arthropod sp. material including lipids, terpenes, flavones, cannabinoids and alkaloids and separate them into individual or grouped compounds comprising:\n a. feeding prepared Plantae sp. or Arthropod sp. material to be extracted into a closed vessel; b. saturating said prepared material in the closed vessel with liquid dimethyl ether to form a first mixture; c. keeping the first mixture below the boiling point of dimethyl ether by applying sufficient pressure or lowering the temperature such that the dimethyl ether is in liquid phase; d. dissolving the soluble compounds including lipids, terpenes, flavones, cannabinoids and alkaloids present in the prepared material into the liquid dimethyl ether to produce a final mixture comprised of the input material and liquid dimethyl ether containing the dissolved soluble compounds including lipids, terpenes, flavones, cannabinoids and alkaloids; e. optionally providing heat to the vessel to enable complete the dissolving of the soluble compounds including lipids, terpenes, flavones, cannabinoids and alkaloids into the liquid dimethyl ether; f. reducing the pressure of the final mixture causing the dimethyl ether to vaporize with the soluble compounds including lipids, terpenes, flavones, cannabinoids and alkaloids entrained; g. allowing the vaporous dimethyl ether carrying the soluble compounds including lipids, terpenes, flavones, cannabinoids and alkaloids to exit from the vessel; h. removing the remaining spent input material now devoid of soluble compounds of lipids, terpenes, flavones, cannabinoids and alkaloids from the vessel; i. directing the soluble compound-rich dimethyl ether vapor containing lipids, terpenes, flavones, cannabinoids and alkaloids into a series of condensation vessels, each at successively lower pressure; j. condensing all of the dissolved soluble compounds including lipids, terpenes, flavones, cannabinoids and alkaloids from the dimethyl ether vapor into the vessels such that all soluble compounds including lipids, terpenes, flavones, cannabinoids and alkaloids are condensed; k. removing the pure dimethyl ether from the last vessel; l. collecting the condensed soluble compounds including lipids, terpenes, flavones, cannabinoids and alkaloids from each of the vessels and sending all, or any, of them into a distillation column, or any of them to any distillation column; m. collecting the products of the distillation column or columns separately or collectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38095
- Patent Class: 546.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12618347', '14934940', '14694303', '14255296', '15803010']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7263650941440992
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5010561449363724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7038341992233266
- Mean Citation Score: 207.818088
- Max Citation Score: 218.91551
- Similarity Product: 146.0214329864204

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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