PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15765617
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["203", "008000"]

Abstract:
The presently disclosed subject matter provides a method for inhibiting the formation of popcorn polymer in the vapor phase of a butadiene extraction/purification system. In a non-limiting embodiment, a method for inhibiting the formation of popcorn polymer includes injecting nitric oxide into the upper portion, i.e., headspace of a butadiene distillation column.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 2 , wherein the nitric oxide is not purged from the distillation unit prior to the addition of the hydrocarbon stream containing 1,3-butadiene into the unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54054
- Patent Class: 203.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11787996', '15763667', '15763743', '13089682', '14360674']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6913269906045232
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4915941295494114
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6713537044990121
- Mean Citation Score: 165.28399
- Max Citation Score: 170.10162
- Similarity Product: 110.44696819072364

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

Dataset: test