PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15764528
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["204", "157300"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to methods of scrubbing of gas by exposure to electrons and apparatuses therefor. Such methods and apparatuses could be used to reduce harmful emissions created by the burning of fossil fuels, e.g. to power ships. According to one aspect there is provided apparatus for electron irradiation scrubbing, said apparatus comprising: an anode; a cathode a nanostructure located between said anode and said cathode, said nanostructure being configured to field-emit electrons in response to the presence of an electric field between the anode and cathode when a potential difference is established therebetween; and a housing coupled to said nanostructure and configured for locating the nanostructure so that it extends into a container containing gas to be scrubbed such that an interior of said container can be exposed to said electrons. According to further aspects there are provided systems comprising such apparatus and methods making use of it.

Claim (Index 31):
A system for electron irradiation scrubbing of flue gases, said system comprising:\n at least four nanostructure arrays, of which the array of  claim 10 , is one, each array formed on an electrically conductive substrate; an electrical power supply; electrical connections connecting said substrates, said power supply and ground in such a way that each substrate is at a different electrical potential; and one or more housings coupled to the substrates and configured for locating said arrays such that their nanostructures extend into the container containing gas to be scrubbed such that an interior of said container can be exposed to electrons field-emitted by the arrays; wherein the substrates are arranged such that, for all the substrates except that at the highest electrical potential, a straight line path exists from a surface of each array defined by free ends of nanostructures forming that array to a corresponding surface of the array formed on the substrate at the next highest potential.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85057
- Patent Class: 204.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10309126', '13132297', '11051332', '13958120', '10553892']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7859257109702821
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4822435306605749
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7555574929393114
- Mean Citation Score: 202.726572
- Max Citation Score: 213.1198
- Similarity Product: 154.87341087408066

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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