PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15753005
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["210", "615000"]

Abstract:
A reactor closed to the atmosphere and method using same for nitrate removal are disclosed.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of denitrifying water, the method comprising the steps of:\n (a) providing a reactor, wherein said reactor comprises:\n (i) a container, said container containing one or more carriers, said carriers comprising denitrifying bacterial biofilm thereon, \n (ii) a water inlet and a gas inlet; \n and wherein said reactor provides with a headspace that seals the inner volume of said reactor to the atmosphere, and said reactor is devoid of a gas-phase passage allowing the gas exiting therefrom; \n (b) introducing nitrate contaminated water to said reactor from the water inlet thereby contacting a contaminated water with the carriers comprising denitrifying bacterial biofilm thereon; and (c) introducing a gas into said reactor from said gas inlet, thereby denitrifying the water.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.0
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12575734', '14646561', '13052852', '12905917', '09662507']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.781363028790911
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4915451988246407
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.752381245794284
- Mean Citation Score: 192.838912
- Max Citation Score: 208.78105
- Similarity Product: 136.93916746124626

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

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