PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15741468
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["210", "149000"]

Abstract:
Various examples are provided that are related to boundary control in membrane distillation (MD) processes. In one example, a system includes a membrane distillation (MD) process comprising a feed side and a permeate side separated by a membrane boundary layer; and processing circuitry configured to control a water production rate of the MD process based at least in part upon a distributed heat transfer across the membrane boundary layer. In another example, a method includes determining a plurality of estimated temperature states of a membrane boundary layer separating a feed side and a permeate side of a membrane distillation (MD) process; and adjusting inlet flow rate or inlet temperature of at least one of the feed side or the permeate side to maintain a difference temperature along the membrane boundary layer about a defined reference temperature based at least in part upon the plurality of estimated temperature states.

Claim (Index 18):
The system of  claim 17 , wherein the 2d advection diffusion equation is applied over a semi-discretized model.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15628205', '11293407', '12209424', '12629703', '14310287']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7650571273557129
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5123576895278467
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7397871835729263
- Mean Citation Score: 207.806618
- Max Citation Score: 222.35866
- Similarity Product: 130.40997198105572

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

Dataset: test