PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16010286
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["423", "179500"]

Abstract:
This invention relates generally to a system and process for recovery of select minerals and lithium from a geothermal brine. The system and process are configured for the sequential recovery of zinc, manganese, and lithium from a Salton Sea Known Geothermal Resource Area brine. The system and process includes: 1) an impurity removal circuit; then 2) a continuous counter-current ion exchange (CCIX) circuit for selectively recovering lithium chloride from the brine flow and concentrating it using a CCIX unit; and then 3) a lithium chloride conversion circuit for converting lithium chloride to lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide product.

Claim (Index 6):
The process of  claim 1  wherein each of said process zones comprises one or more ion adsorbent beds or columns configured in parallel, in series, or in combinations of parallel and series, flowing either in up flow or down flow modes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70769
- Patent Class: 423.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12766589', '13617609', '14257396', '14190032', '14195788']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.818600196231955
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5170817450827806
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7884483511170376
- Mean Citation Score: 288.920508
- Max Citation Score: 297.89005
- Similarity Product: 197.0967859921544

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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