PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16145316
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["095", "255000"]

Abstract:
Devices are provided for ventilating and/or removing volatile chemicals from liquid (e.g. water) stored in a liquid-containing storage tank (e.g. water-storage tank). The devices include a first fluid flow path that is physically isolated from a second fluid flow path and a convection device for moving a first fluid along the first fluid flow path toward at a desired destination and for exhausting the first fluid at the desired destination at a desired velocity. Methods are also provided for ventilating and/or removing volatile chemicals from liquid (e.g. water) stored in liquid-containing storage tanks (e.g. water-storage tanks). The methods involve blowing a first fluid through a ventilation device into a liquid-containing storage device at a velocity sufficient to achieve a desired mass transfer rate of volatile chemicals from the liquid in the liquid-containing storage device to air in the headspace and flowing the contaminated air back through the ventilation device.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for removing volatile chemicals from liquid stored in a liquid-containing storage tank comprising:\n blowing outside air through a ventilation device attached to a liquid-containing storage tank along a first fluid flow path and into the liquid-containing storage tank at a desired velocity and in a desired direction; and removing volatile chemicals from the liquid-containing storage tank through the ventilation device along a second fluid flow path, wherein the first fluid flow path and the second fluid flow path are physically isolated in the ventilation device and wherein the desired direction of the first fluid flow path has a substantial downward vector relative to an air-liquid interface within the liquid-containing storage tank, and wherein the volatile chemicals exiting the ventilation device along a second fluid flow path are deflected in a different direction by a portion of the ventilation device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42647
- Patent Class: 95.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15659696', '14105182', '15857727', '10360273', '12888329']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7236536826652102
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5401551276869466
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7053038271673839
- Mean Citation Score: 250.842058
- Max Citation Score: 379.44992
- Similarity Product: 312.86173802352914

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

Dataset: test