PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16304315
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["568", "724000"]

Abstract:
In an embodiment, a method for the continuous manufacture of bisphenol A comprises reacting phenol and acetone in the presence of an acidic catalyst to form a product mixture comprising bisphenol A and phenol; directing the product mixture to a crystallization unit comprising a crystallization vessel and a heat exchanger for cooling the product mixture; and crystallizing bisphenol A-phenol adduct crystals from said product mixture in said crystallization unit to form a suspension of crystals; wherein a production rate of the bisphenol A through the heat exchanger is less than or equal to 18 kg bisphenol A per m of a heat exchanging surface per hour.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the crystallization unit comprises at least two heat exchangers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88136
- Patent Class: 568.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11971314', '11971268', '15757070', '10661169', '10573697']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7022061471300239
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4930394266032062
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6812894750773423
- Mean Citation Score: 176.47634
- Max Citation Score: 188.02196
- Similarity Product: 133.82485990761757

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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