PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15928245
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["405", "128200"]

Abstract:
An apparatus includes a controllable contaminant-extraction system configured to, at least in part, extract an extractable contaminant from a contaminant plume positioned in the soil via an extraction conduit extending in the contaminant plume. A control assembly is configured to control operation of the controllable contaminant-extraction system in such a way that the controllable contaminant-extraction system extracts the extractable contaminant via the extraction conduit by randomly changing, at least in part, a flow rate of the extractable contaminant that is extracted from the contaminant plume.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of extracting an extractable contaminant from a contaminant plume in soil, the method comprising:\n providing an extraction conduit in the soil such that the extraction conduit extends into the contaminant plume in the soil, in which the extraction conduit includes an entrance portal that is configured to be positioned, at least in part, in the contaminant plume in such a way that the extractable contaminant, in use, is movable from the contaminant plume and enters an interior of the extraction conduit, and in which the extraction conduit also includes an exit portal being spaced-apart from the entrance portal, and the exit portal is configured to allow the extractable contaminant to be movable from the entrance portal and along the extraction conduit and to exit from the interior of the extraction conduit away from the soil; providing a controllable contaminant-extraction system operatively coupled to the extraction conduit, in which the controllable contaminant-extraction system includes a controllable pump in direct communication with the extraction conduit, the controllable pump being operable between a rest-operation mode and a runtime mode; providing a control assembly comprising a windmill operatively connected to the pump of the controllable contaminant-extraction system so as to be configured to cycle the pump between the rest-operation mode and the runtime-operation mode as dictated by movement of the wind; during the rest-operation mode, ceasing operation of the controllable pump such that an amount of the extractable contaminant contained in the contaminant plume only increases, at least in part during the rest-operation mode of the controllable pump; during the runtime mode, operating the controllable pump to directly extract, at least in part, the extractable contaminant from the contaminant plume via the extraction conduit so that an amount of the extractable contaminant contained in the contaminant plume only decreases, at least in part during the runtime mode of the controllable pump.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06818
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13134767', '15066811', '10884692', '10670259', '15670603']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7358154364847355
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4673125239102567
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7089651452272876
- Mean Citation Score: 155.4783
- Max Citation Score: 163.8415
- Similarity Product: 125.38668504825236

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

Dataset: test