PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16064910
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["159", "048100"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for drying system control. A control system receives inputs and measurements and provides modulated outputs to a drying system, control subsystems, or a user interface. An energy ratio compares the optimal energy required to the actual energy applied is into the control system for a drying process and can be provided as a constraint for optimization. The energy ratio enables compensation for effects that environmental variables such as ambient humidity and temperature may have on system performance. The control system can modulate the energy supplied by the drying system to meet an energy ratio setpoint. Embodiments of the present disclosure can validate the effectiveness of the control system by monitoring material yield and utility consumption in real-time to optimize system performance.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein the ideal raw material supply rate and the ideal amount of heat energy to apply are determined by:\n calculating an initial raw material supply rate based on the energy ratio and the input from the at least one ambient condition sensor; monitoring the indication of moisture content of the finished material; reducing the raw material supply rate if the indication of moisture content of the finished material is higher than the desired indication of moisture content of the finished material and the amount of heat energy being applied is greater than or equal to a maximum amount of heat energy to apply; increasing the amount of heat energy to apply if the indication of moisture content of the finished material is higher than the desired indication of moisture content of the finished material and the amount of heat energy being applied is less than or equal a maximum amount of heat energy to apply; increasing the raw material supply rate if the indication of moisture content of the finished material is less than the desired indication of moisture content of the finished material and the raw material supply rate is greater than a maximum raw material supply rate; decreasing the amount of heat energy to apply if the indication of moisture content of the finished material is lower than the desired indication of moisture content of the finished material and the raw material supply rate is greater than or equal to a maximum raw material supply rate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76
- Patent Class: 159.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10963954', '11026710', '12069796', '10477617', '13732437']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.653853173565784
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5192022767070701
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6403880838799126
- Mean Citation Score: 149.15796
- Max Citation Score: 160.8994
- Similarity Product: 129.86851317000392

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

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