PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744134
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["210", "321690"]

Abstract:
An aeration device configured to be fitted to a membrane filtration module having membranes mounted therein. The aeration device comprises a sleeve configured to at least partially surround the membrane filtration module. The sleeve has one end adapted to engage with the membrane filtration module and another end adapted to engage with a filtrate collection conduit or manifold.

Claim (Index 1):
An aeration device configured to be fitted to a membrane filtration module having membranes mounted therein, the aeration device comprises:\n a sleeve configured to at least partially surround the membrane filtration module, the sleeve having one end adapted to engage with the membrane filtration module and another end adapted to engage with a filtrate collection conduit or manifold, the sleeve comprising:\n an outer wall and an inner wall spaced therefrom, the inner wall and the outer wall downwardly extending co-axially from a joining portion, the outer wall and the inner wall defining a chamber therebetween having an open lower end at a distal end of the inner wall and a closed upper end at the joining portion where the inner wall and the outer wall of the sleeve are joined; \n a gas inlet configured to communicate gas from a source of gas to the chamber; \n one or more aeration openings defined in the inner wall of the sleeve and configured to provide fluid communication between the chamber and the membranes of the membrane filtration module; and \n one or more drain openings defined in the outer wall of the sleeve and configured to provide fluid communication between the membranes of the membrane filtration module and an outside of the sleeve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64865
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15428226', '10595841', '15025702', '14347258', '10530900']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8540276413127567
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.501783742792383
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8188032514607193
- Mean Citation Score: 271.64865
- Max Citation Score: 283.78885
- Similarity Product: 218.305174905935

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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