PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16133391
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["422", "255000"]

Abstract:
A system and method of extracting fluids from biomass material through the use of closed system capable of both low pressure and pressurized extraction that utilizes a combined vacuum and fluid collection tank, thus enabling different levels of pressure and vacuum to achieve a wide range of temperatures and allowing for variations in the chemical properties of the resultant extracted fluid. Although vacuum is preferred for safety, pressure is available when necessary, such as due to higher levels of filtration in which the use of vacuum is insufficient.

Claim (Index 14):
A process of extracting fluid from biomass material using a system that includes a material vessel capable of receiving the biomass material, an evaporator vessel coupled to the material vessel, a condenser coupled to the evaporator vessel, a storage tank for solvent coupled to the material vessel, a vacuum pump coupled to the condenser and selectively coupleable to the storage tank, the vacuum pump capable of creating a reduced air pressure in the condenser that is applied to the material vessel through the evaporator vessel to draw solvent from the solvent tank through the biomass material to thereby draw a fluid mixture of solvent and oil from the biomass material into the evaporator vessel, a source of pressure coupled to the storage tank that is capable of creating an increased air pressure in the storage tank to push solvent from the solvent tank through the biomass material to thereby draw a fluid mixture of solvent and oil from the biomass material into the evaporator vessel, a heating source coupled to the material vessel and the evaporator vessel and capable of applying heat to the material vessel and to the evaporator vessel, and a cooling source coupled to the storage tank and the condenser to cool solvent in the storage tank, the process comprising:\n introducing biomass material into the material vessel; extracting fluid from the biomass material using solvent from the storage tank by one of either:\n creating a continuous reduced air pressure with the vacuum pump in the condenser that is in fluid communication with the material vessel to draw solvent from the storage tank into the material vessel and through the biomass material to generate a fluid mixture of solvent and biomass oil that is drawn into the evaporator vessel, or \n creating a continuous increased air pressure with the pressure pump in the storage tank to push solvent into the material vessel and through the biomass material in the material vessel to generate a fluid mixture of solvent and biomass oil that is pushed into the evaporator vessel; \n extracting the solvent from the fluid mixture in the evaporator vessel by heating the evaporator vessel with the heating source to generate vaporized solvent from the fluid mixture in the evaporator vessel; and \n returning the vaporized solvent to the storage tank in liquid form by one from among:\n drawing the vaporized solvent into the condenser using the continuous reduced air pressure generated by the vacuum pump to condense the vaporized solvent into a liquid solvent, then drawing the liquid solvent into the vacuum tank, shutting off the vacuum pump, and draining the liquid solvent from the vacuum tank into the storage tank; \n pushing the vaporized solvent into the condenser using the continuous increased air pressure generated by the pressure pump to condense the vaporized solvent into a liquid solvent, then pushing the liquid solvent into the vacuum tank and thence into the storage tank; and \n shutting off the vacuum pump when reduced air pressure was used and allowing the air pressure to increase to atmospheric pressure in the system and push the vaporized solvent to the vacuum tank to be drained into the storage tank.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.52459
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15610346', '16004868', '15697205', '15591598', '16104611']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7687509381328429
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4946033740634959
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7413361817259082
- Mean Citation Score: 241.84111
- Max Citation Score: 273.9294
- Similarity Product: 217.6750637560487

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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