PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959599
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["406", "093000"]

Abstract:
When performing a method for pneumatically conveying plastic pellets, the plastic pellets are conveyed, by means of a carrier gas, through a conveyor line from a feed point to a destination with a liquid being added thereto, wherein the quantity of liquid added to the plastic pellets and/or the carrier gas is such that during conveying, the carrier gas is oversaturated with the liquid at least in sections of the conveyor line in such a way that a Froude number defining the conveying conditions in the conveyor line is smaller than 45 at any point along the conveyor line.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for pneumatically conveying plastic pellets which are conveyed, by means of a carrier gas, through a conveyor line from a feed point to a destination with a liquid being added thereto, wherein the quantity of liquid added to at least one of the group comprising the plastic pellets and the carrier gas is such that during conveying, the carrier gas is oversaturated with the liquid at least in sections of the conveyor line,\n wherein a Froude number defining the conveying conditions in the conveyor line is smaller than 45 at any point along the conveyor line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94444
- Patent Class: 406.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15110538', '13345874', '12021288', '12972110', '15137472']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5937402354810355
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4920660188126095
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5835728138141929
- Mean Citation Score: 131.293658
- Max Citation Score: 137.8819
- Similarity Product: 85.04541761416195

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

Dataset: test