PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15898744
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["203", "019000"]

Abstract:
A method for separating ethanol from fermented biomass is provided. Fermented biomass that is rich in ethanol is used directly as packing material in a distillation column, and a small amount of water at the bottom of the column is used to efficiently transfer heat to the biomass at the bottom of the column. The fermented biomass packing has a high ratio of surface area to volume, making an efficient packing material. As vapor condenses on the biomass, diffusion of ethanol/water vapor from the body of the biomass enriches the ethanol concentration at the surface of the biomass. Droplets containing lower concentrations of ethanol drip downwards from the biomass, and vapors containing higher concentrations of ethanol rise upwards from the biomass, resulting in a higher concentration of ethanol at the top of the column than was initially in the biomass.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein said vertical distillation column is a metal drum or a metal bin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 203.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13809269', '12643468', '10035476', '15334430', '14389090']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7130268207374759
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5091488275726532
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6926390214209937
- Mean Citation Score: 225.742764
- Max Citation Score: 248.7601
- Similarity Product: 160.58142167419194

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

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