PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966978
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["435", "136000"]

Abstract:
A wastewater treatment process elicits microorganisms to convert a waste stream/organic resource to intracellular biopolymer polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA). The process includes (i) waste stream/organic resource composition feed criteria, (ii) configuration coupled with operational parameters, and (iii) PHA-laden biomass separation and stabilization. A waste stream/organic resource capable of producing enhanced levels of PHA may be selected based on a combination of criteria, which may include short chain fatty acid concentration, protein concentration, polysaccharides concentration, and total suspended solids concentration. The waste stream is introduced into an aeration basin or sequencing batch reactor upon a specific configuration and operated under various parameter combinations for selecting/enriching microorganisms capable of producing PHA. The PHA-laden biomass is separated and stabilized for downstream PHA related product beneficial uses. The present process achieves concurrent wastewater treatment and PHA production, where PHA level (of more than 10% on a cell-weight basis) otherwise could not be obtained.

Claim (Index 5):
The process of  claim 4 , wherein pre-treating the initial waste stream comprises processing the initial waste stream using solids fermentation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64423
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13206327', '14760221', '13514660', '15313584', '12704732']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6319374354471837
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5510147516719207
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6238451670696574
- Mean Citation Score: 285.80397800000014
- Max Citation Score: 411.8256
- Similarity Product: 381.6321542564392

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