PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872379
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["554", "001000"]

Abstract:
An ethanol production process and system for recovering high value oil products. The invention includes adding a heated lipid (oil) stream to a thin stillage stream to break the water/oil emulsion and free bound oil then recovering the oil. The lipid stream may be heated by use of existing process steam or other process energy source, or may be heated by the introduction of energy from an external source. The process uses oil as the heat transfer mechanism to increase both the volume and quality of the oil recovered.

Claim (Index 1):
A process for the recovery of oil from an ethanol process comprising:\n processing a feedstock to create a process stream; fermenting the process stream to create a post-fermentation process stream; separating the post-fermentation process stream into an alcohol stream and a whole stillage stream; separating a thin stillage stream from the whole stillage stream, wherein the thin stillage stream includes bound oil; heating the lipid stream by means of indirect heat transfer; obtaining an oil product from the oil flow stream.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62712
- Patent Class: 554.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15063023', '13922497', '14468956', '13870261', '14071404']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6294070386272739
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5612885970671071
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6225951944712572
- Mean Citation Score: 293.2555680000001
- Max Citation Score: 418.499
- Similarity Product: 408.52135597336303

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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