PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864550
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["429", "425000"]

Abstract:
A liquid fuel reformer includes a fuel vaporizer which utilizes heat from an upstream source of heat, specifically, an electric heater, operable in the start-up mode of the reformer, and therefore independent of the reforming reaction zone of the reformer, to vaporize fuel in a downstream vaporization zone.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of reforming a liquid reformable fuel, the method comprising:\n introducing an oxygen-containing gas into a conduit for routing fluids toward an inlet of a reformer; heating a stream of the oxygen-containing gas with at least one of a first source of heat comprising an electric heater disposed in the conduit and a second source of heat disposed in the conduit comprising heat of exotherm from the liquid fuel reformer and/or a hydrogen reformate-consuming device external to the liquid fuel reformer to provide a stream of heated oxygen-containing gas; introducing into the stream of heated oxygen-containing gas through or proximate to a vaporizer a liquid reformable fuel to provide a heated gaseous reforming reaction mixture; and reforming the heated gaseous reforming reaction mixture to produce a hydrogen-rich reformate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54286
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14533803', '14533702', '15033802', '15034000', '14534409']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.920573376054584
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5971289818189042
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.888228936631016
- Mean Citation Score: 524.9708059999998
- Max Citation Score: 554.1809
- Similarity Product: 487.42345750494

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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