PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882795
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["062", "064000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided that includes providing a liquid nitrogen storage system configured to cool a supply of liquid nitrogen to a temperature below the vapor point of liquid nitrogen; coupling a piping system with the liquid nitrogen storage system to convey a portion of the supply of liquid nitrogen from the liquid nitrogen storage system; coupling the piping system with a liquid nitrogen control valve configured to control a flow of liquid nitrogen to at least one liquid nitrogen dispensing head; disposing the at least one liquid nitrogen dispensing head above a conveyance device operable to convey an aggregate stream of a concrete batching plant during use; and disposing the at least one liquid nitrogen dispensing head in a position to dispense an output flow of liquid nitrogen onto the aggregate stream of the concrete batching plant during use.

Claim (Index 30):
A system for cooling aggregate, the system comprising:\n a liquid nitrogen storage system configured to cool a supply of liquid nitrogen to a temperature below the vapor point of liquid nitrogen; a nitrogen vapor removal device; a liquid nitrogen control valve; at least one liquid nitrogen dispensing head; a piping system coupling:\n the liquid nitrogen storage system with the nitrogen vapor removal device; \n the nitrogen vapor removal device with the liquid nitrogen control valve; and \n the liquid nitrogen control valve with the at least one liquid nitrogen dispensing head; \n a computerized liquid nitrogen control system communicatively coupled with the liquid nitrogen storage system and the liquid nitrogen control valve; a concrete batching plant comprising:\n a conveyance device to convey an aggregate stream to a concrete mixing device; and \n a batching plant controller to control addition of concrete ingredients into the mixing device and communicatively coupled with the computerized control system; \n wherein the at least one liquid nitrogen dispensing head is disposed above the conveyance device of the concrete batching plant and configured to dispense an output flow of liquid nitrogen onto the aggregate stream of the concrete batching plant during use; wherein the computerized liquid nitrogen control system is responsive to an input signal received from the batching plant controller; wherein the at least one liquid nitrogen dispensing head outputs liquid nitrogen at a pressure of about 15 psi; and wherein the at least one liquid nitrogen dispensing head is adjustable to permit spraying liquid nitrogen at different angles of incidence relative to an aggregate carrying surface of the conveyance device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51667
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10462415', '10818394', '14895488', '14260233', '11706723']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8101563091325759
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4608781965313233
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7752284978724506
- Mean Citation Score: 151.36152599999997
- Max Citation Score: 162.55154
- Similarity Product: 129.6926008830428

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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