PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15932291
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["366", "305000"]

Abstract:
Method and apparatus to facilitate recycling of at least one fraction of bitumen-containing materials. This can be accomplished by dissolving the at least one fraction, for example, maltenes or asphaltenes in roofing shingles, into at least one solvent. In one aspect, the apparatus comprises a dissolution vessel, a tumbler positioned therein, and at least one solvent distributor. The tumbler is configured to facilitate wetting the bitumen-containing materials with solvent. In a second aspect, a system comprises the apparatus, a solid-liquid separator, for example, a vibratory screen, and at least one solvent-fraction separator, for example, a flash drum. The at least one solvent can comprise one or more solvents useful to extract the at least one fraction. In a third aspect, a first fraction is extracted from the bitumen-containing materials with a first solvent composition, then a second fraction is extracted from the remaining bitumen-containing materials with a second solvent composition.

Claim (Index 6):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the at least one solvent distributor is configured to discharge the at least one solvent into contact with bitumen-containing materials enclosed by the tumbler when the tumbler is in a loaded configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 68.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52941
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13222936', '13351767', '13623924', '13283808', '13310226']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8241118357481226
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4564526871361955
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7873459208869299
- Mean Citation Score: 199.548162
- Max Citation Score: 206.74934
- Similarity Product: 162.4417905232763

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

Dataset: test