PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16156335
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["044", "439000"]

Abstract:
A process for the manufacture of butanol, acetone and/or other renewable chemicals is provided wherein the process utilises one or more of the group comprising by-products of the manufacture of malt whisky, such as draff, pot ale and/or spent lees, biomass substrates, such as paper, sludge from paper manufacture and spent grains from distillers and brewers, and diluents, such as water and spent liquid from other fermentations. The process comprises treating a substrate to hydrolyse it and fermenting the treated substrate at an initial pH in the range of 5.0 to 6.0. Also provided is a biofuel comprising butanol manufactured according to the process of the invention.

Claim (Index 1):
A process for the manufacture of butanol and/or acetone, comprising at least the steps of:\n treating a substrate comprising draff, or a derivative thereof, and pot ale to hydrolyse the substrate to provide a treated substrate, said draff comprising spent grain consisting essentially of malted barley; and fermenting the treated substrate in the presence of a culture of butanol- and/or acetone-forming micro-organisms at an initial pH in the range of 5.0 to 6.0 and at a concentration of free copper ions of less than 20 \u03bcM to provide a fermented product containing butanol and/or acetone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71014
- Patent Class: 44.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: half
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15323259', '16058540', '14907475', '13293003', '14123064']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6855398799690365
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5340408645904724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6703899784311802
- Mean Citation Score: 168.83928999999995
- Max Citation Score: 206.75977
- Similarity Product: 144.96390681607366

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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