PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16013833
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["424", "093100"]

Abstract:
The invention described herein presents compositions and methods for a multistep biological and chemical process for the capture and conversion of carbon dioxide and/or other forms of inorganic carbon into organic chemicals including biofuels or other useful industrial, chemical, pharmaceutical, or biomass products. One or more process steps utilizes chemoautotrophic microorganisms to fix inorganic carbon into organic compounds through chemosynthesis. An additional feature described are process steps whereby electron donors used for the chemosynthetic fixation of carbon are generated by chemical or electrochemical means, or are produced from inorganic or waste sources. An additional feature described are process steps for the recovery of useful chemicals produced by the carbon dioxide capture and conversion process, both from chemosynthetic reaction steps, as well as from non-biological reaction steps.

Claim (Index 52):
A process for the capture and conversion of carbon dioxide and/or other sources of inorganic carbon, into organic compounds, comprising:\n introducing a carbon source in the form of flue gas comprising carbon dioxide and/or in the form of an aqueous solution comprising inorganic carbon into an environment in a bioreactor that is suitable for maintaining chemoautotrophic microorganisms; introducing an electron donor that is separate from the carbon source into the environment in the bioreactor; fixing the carbon dioxide in the flue gas and/or inorganic carbon in the aqueous solution into the organic compounds within the environment in the bioreactor via at least one chemosynthetic carbon fixing reaction utilizing chemoautotrophic microorganisms and using at least one electron donor and at least one electron acceptor; and wherein said electron donor and/or said electron acceptor are generated and/or refined from at least one inorganic chemical, wherein said electron donor is generated separately from the carbon source and externally to the bioreactor using a renewable, alternative, or low CO 2  emission power source, wherein said electron donor is molecular hydrogen that is generated using said power source, through electrolysis of water, wherein biomass and/or biochemicals are produced by the at least one chemosynthetic reaction, and wherein the biomass and/or biochemicals are separated from the environment and are processed into a product comprising an animal feed, a fertilizer, a soil additive, a soil stabilizer, a carbon source for large scale fermentations, and/or a nutrient source for the growth of other microbes or organisms.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14033013', '13715430', '14839074', '13792144', '14776611']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.745726955124024
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6112471507373672
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7322789746853583
- Mean Citation Score: 386.745438
- Max Citation Score: 519.73114
- Similarity Product: 458.3031611601138

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

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