PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16099248
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["210", "739000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to settling devices for separating particles from a bulk fluid with applications in numerous fields. The particle settling devices of the present disclosure may include a stack of truncoconical cones that may be arranged in opposite orientation, apex to base. Other embodiments include several concentric vertical tubes attached to conical surfaces at the bottom, with inclined settling strips attached to the vertical tubes in annular regions between the tubes. These devices are useful for separating small (millimeter or micron sized) particles from a bulk fluid with applications in numerous fields, such as biological (microbial, mammalian, plant, insect or algal) cell cultures, solid catalyst particle separation from a liquid or gas and waste water treatment.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of settling particles in a suspension, comprising:\n (a) introducing a liquid suspension of particles into a particle settling device which includes a cyclone housing having:\n a first conical portion; \n a second conical portion; \n a cylindrical portion located between the first and second conical portions; \n at least one inlet for the liquid suspension to enter the cyclone housing; \n a first outlet port for harvesting a clarified liquid; \n a second outlet port for discharging a concentrated liquid suspension; and \n a first stack of cones located within the cyclone housing and occupying the first conical portion and at least part of the cylindrical portion, each cone of the first stack of cones including (i) a truncated apex positioned distal to the second conical portion, and (ii) an open base positioned proximate to the second conical portion, the first stack of cones being generally centered around a substantially central opening formed by the truncated apex in each cone in the first stack of cones; \n (b) collecting the clarified liquid from the first outlet port; and, (c) collecting the concentrated liquid suspension from the second outlet port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64198
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15586902', '11703926', '10275086', '11087998', '10289789']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7257356667648992
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6014560514709977
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.713307705235509
- Mean Citation Score: 240.783204
- Max Citation Score: 532.795
- Similarity Product: 463.5959923374653

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

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