PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861557
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["048", "061000"]

Abstract:
A device to extract water and volatile organic compounds from asteroids, comets, and other space resources for propellant production, life support consumables, and manufacturing from in-situ resources in support of advanced space exploration is described. The device thermally extracts ice and water bound to clay minerals, which is then combined with small amounts of oxygen to gasify organic matter contained in carbonaceous chondrite asteroids. In addition to water, the device produces hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide that comprise precursors to oxygen for propellant and breathing gas and organic compounds including fuels and plastics. The device and methods are also applicable to the recovery of moisture, volatiles, and carbonaceous matter from low-grade terrestrial resources and waste materials. Application of the technology to terrestrial resources and wastes containing relatively low concentrations of carbonaceous matter is useful on Earth to obtain fuel components and water in an efficient manner. The technology enables the use of unconventional feed materials such as coal preparation waste, oil shale, contaminated soils, municipal wastes, and renewable resources and their byproducts produces valuable fuels and chemicals while mitigating detrimental environmental issues related to conventional storage or disposal of such materials.

Claim (Index 15):
The device of  claim 13  where two batch reactors are used, allowing residual heat from one autothermal reactor to be indirectly exchanged to pre-heat steam, oxygen-containing gas, and solid-phase resource fed to the second reactor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75207
- Patent Class: 48.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14235549', '11801961', '11786922', '14744003', '10997334']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6453518087123518
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4797462482315769
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6287912526642744
- Mean Citation Score: 162.26129
- Max Citation Score: 172.21077
- Similarity Product: 117.41899089993238

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

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