PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16435274
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["137", "008000"]

Abstract:
A method for facilitating the distribution of the flow of one or more streams within a bed vessel is provided. Disposed within the bed vessel are internal materials and structures including multiple operating zones. One type of operating zone can be a processing zone composed of one or more beds of solid processing material. Another type of operating zone can be a treating zone. Treating zones can facilitate the distribution of the one or more streams fed to processing zones. The distribution can facilitate contact between the feed streams and the processing materials contained in the processing zones.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of improving flow distribution of one or more streams in a process vessel comprising:\n passing the one or more streams through an upstream processing zone and a downstream processing zone within the process vessel, the upstream processing zone and downstream processing zone each containing one or more beds of processing materials; and passing the one or more streams through a redistribution treating zone located between the upstream processing zone and downstream processing zone, wherein the redistribution treating zone has a depth of four feet or less and contains treating elements, and wherein the redistribution treating zone mitigates stream channeling of the streams exiting the upstream processing zone and affects lateral redistribution of the flow of the one or more streams within the downstream processing zone, and wherein the treating elements have more than one opening passing therethrough, and wherein the treating elements have asperities formed on the surfaces thereof, the asperities comprising one or more of flutes, fins and struts, and wherein the treating elements have one or more open cells which form a plurality of interconnected fluid flow pathways within and through each treating element, and wherein the treating elements are up to 100 times the size of the individual processing materials within the process vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03922
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15720751', '15265405', '16379198', '15676603', '16105781']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8816421311443905
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5753315010151714
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8510110681314687
- Mean Citation Score: 475.99974800000007
- Max Citation Score: 493.99197
- Similarity Product: 491.328092899661

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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