PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16237000
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["210", "610000"]

Abstract:
A treatment process for municipal, commercial, industrial, and institutional fluids containing one or more substances at a first concentration includes a contactor, an aerator, and a separator. The fluid is mixed with a powdered natural lignocellulosic material (“PNLM”), a microbial growth inoculum, and at least a portion of the fluid in the contactor to provide a mixture that includes an established, acclimated microbial growth in the fluid. The mixture is introduced to an aerator where physical binding and chemical bonding of at least some of the one or more substances to the PNLM additionally physiological uptake by microbial growth in a biosludge reduces the concentration of at least some of the one or more substances in the fluid discharged from the aerator to a second concentration. The biosludge is separated to recover at least a portion of the PNLM that is recycled to the contactor.

Claim (Index 9):
A method of reducing the concentration of one or more substances present in a fluid from a first concentration to a second concentration that is lower than the first concentration, the method comprising:\n introducing at least a portion of an acclimated microbial growth, a fluid containing one or more substances at the first concentration and a biological growth media to an aerator; maintaining in the aerator a biological growth media concentration of from about 1 milligram of biological growth media per liter of fluid (mg/l) to about 5,000 mg/l; maintaining in the aerator a dissolved oxygen concentration of from about 0.1 milligrams of oxygen per liter of fluid (mg/l) to about 5 mg/l by dispersing an oxygen containing gas into the fluid; promoting the formation of a biological sludge that includes microbial growth and biological growth media in the aerator; reducing the concentration of the one or more substances in the fluid from the first concentration to the second concentration through the physiological consumption of at least a portion of the one or more substances present in the fluid by at least a portion of the microbial growth in the aerator; discharging from the aerator at least a portion of the fluid containing some or all of the substances at the second concentration; forming a biological sludge blanket in the aerator; removing a first portion of the biological sludge blanket from the aerator; returning the first portion of the biological sludge blanket from the aerator to the aerator to provide at least a portion of the microbial growth in the aerator; separating a remaining portion of the biological sludge blanket into at least a separated biological growth media rich component comprising microbial growth and a biological growth media component comprising at least about 50% by weight separated biological growth media; and introducing at least a portion of the separated biological growth-rich media component to the aerator to provide at least a portion of the biological growth media.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20548
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14519842', '12250053', '08309868', '11284792', '15559635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7696426758454837
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6081547011964229
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7534938783805777
- Mean Citation Score: 254.142654
- Max Citation Score: 547.5692
- Similarity Product: 504.2035636232137

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

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