PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16257950
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["127", "044000"]

Abstract:
Preferred embodiments of the present invention comprise the optional application of concentrations of an aqueous permanganate solution, such as an approximately 0.01% A to approximately 50% liquid permanganate solution and preferably comprising approximately 20% sodium permanganate dosed at approximately 1 ppm to approximately 100 ppm to harvested sugar crops, such as sugarcane, sugar beets, and sweet sorghum, at one or more of the sugar processing steps for the crops. The steps where the liquid sodium permanganate may optionally be applied include at a sugar crop cutting step, a sugar crop conveying step, a sugar juice extraction step, a sugar juice clarifying step, and a clarifier muds filtration step. The application of liquid sodium permanganate in the processing of sugar from sugar crops results in reduced equipment fouling, reduced loss in juice purity, reduced scale formation, decreased turbidity in clarified juices, increased sugarcane processing rates, reduced sugar crop production costs, increased sugar product yield, and increased production capacity.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising a step (xiii) concentrating the clarified sugar juice in an evaporator, wherein a heat transfer efficiency of the evaporator is improved as compared to a heat transfer efficiency of an evaporator used in processes where the aqueous permanganate solution is absent.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05747
- Patent Class: 127.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12672634', '14456076', '13587857', '11445570', '16163365']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6522728149355902
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5342835061553619
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6404738840575673
- Mean Citation Score: 231.174014
- Max Citation Score: 251.46008
- Similarity Product: 180.3595898601913

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

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