PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16063644
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["241", "018000"]

Abstract:
A method for producing a comminuted dry material from a coarse material, the method including: (a) providing a heated drying gas from a drying gas source; (b) providing the coarse material in a storage bin; (c) feeding the coarse material and the heated drying gas into a comminuting equipment; (d) comminuting and drying the coarse material within the comminuting equipment to obtain a comminuted dry material; (e) collecting a mixture of drying gas and comminuted dry material from the comminuting equipment and feeding the mixture to a separator to separate the comminuted dry material from the drying gas; and (0 recycling at least part of the drying gas from step (e) as a preconditioning gas and feeding the preconditioning gas into a lower part of the storage bin to precondition the coarse material.

Claim (Index 12):
The grinding and drying plant as claimed in  claim 11  comprising a mixing arrangement within the recycling conduits for mixing the preconditioning gas with heated drying gas from the drying gas source before the feeding into the lower part of said storage bin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90566
- Patent Class: 241.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13148945', '11989389', '11107152', '13647516', '13040016']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7986765881039548
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4836880326501618
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7671777325585756
- Mean Citation Score: 213.30281
- Max Citation Score: 219.23915
- Similarity Product: 150.18358797286157

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

Dataset: test