PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16379127
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["264", "012000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to ultrahigh efficiency spray drying systems and processes, utilizing induction of localized turbulence in a drying fluid flow stream to produce spray dried product, having particular utility for low temperature spray drying operations. In a specific implementation, a method of processing a spray dryable liquid composition to form a spray dried product includes the steps of: generating a spray of the spray dryable liquid composition; contacting the spray of spray dryable liquid composition in a spray drying contact zone with a stream of primary drying fluid; injecting pressurized secondary drying fluid into the stream of primary drying fluid in the spray drying contact zone at multiple loci thereof to provide localized turbulence at said multiple loci; and recovering the spray dried product from the spray drying contact zone. Systems of the present disclosure are effective in achieving high-rate production of dry powder spray dried products, with substantially reduced capital equipment costs, energy requirements, and operating expenditures.

Claim (Index 12):
The spray drying system of  claim 10 , wherein the drying fluid source is constituted to supply the drying fluid to the at least one drying fluid inlet of the spray drying vessel at temperature below at least one of 120\u00b0 C., 115\u00b0 C., 110\u00b0 C., 100\u00b0 C., 95\u00b0 C., 90\u00b0 C., 85\u00b0 C., 80\u00b0 C., 75\u00b0 C., 70\u00b0 C., 65\u00b0 C., 60\u00b0 C., 55\u00b0 C., 50\u00b0 C., 45\u00b0 C., 40\u00b0 C., 35\u00b0 C., 30\u00b0 C., 25\u00b0 C., and 20\u00b0 C., and above freezing temperature of liquid to be volatilized for spray drying of the spray-dryable material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04762
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16055075', '15668832', '15865657', '16005302', '15965910']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8738808781381183
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6105208683517143
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8475448771594779
- Mean Citation Score: 477.651418
- Max Citation Score: 560.5288
- Similarity Product: 500.0372385520935

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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