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 27):
A biological and chemical process for the capture and conversion of carbon dioxide and/or other sources of inorganic carbon, into organic compounds, comprising:\n introducing carbon dioxide gas, either alone and/or dissolved in a mixture or solution further comprising carbonate ion and/or bicarbonate ion, and/or introducing inorganic carbon contained in a solid phase into an environment suitable for maintaining chemoautotrophic organisms and/or chemoautotroph cell extracts; and fixing the carbon dioxide and/or inorganic carbon into organic compounds within the environment via at least one chemosynthetic carbon fixing reaction utilizing obligate and/or facultative chemoautotrophic microorganisms; wherein where the chemosynthetic carbon fixing reaction is driven by chemical and/or electrochemical energy provided by electron donors and electron acceptors that have been generated chemically and/or electrochemically and/or or are introduced into the environment from at least one source external to the environment, 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): 0.7446356476447205
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6145720164497157
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.73162928452522
- Mean Citation Score: 386.745438
- Max Citation Score: 519.73114
- Similarity Product: 474.15895441632273

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

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