PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16100071
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["202", "158000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and process doubles the number of trays in a single fractionation column. A dividing wall is used to isolate a first side from a second side and fractionation on trays on each side is independent of the other. A transition vapor stream is ducted from a top of a first side to the bottom of the second side, and a transition liquid stream is ducted from a bottom of the second side to the top of the first side.

Claim (Index 17):
A system comprising:\n (a) a column for fractionating a first material from a feed stream of said first material and a second material, the column comprising:\n a top, a bottom and a sidewall extending therebetween, \n a dividing wall extending between the top and the bottom and between sides of the sidewall so as to divide a first side of the column from a second side of the column, \n a feed inlet in the sidewall for introducing the feed stream into the column, \n a vapor discharge at the top of the column in the first side, \n a vapor duct having a first end at the vapor discharge and a second end at a vapor entry at a bottom of the column in the second side, wherein said vapor duct extends through the column, \n a liquid discharge at the bottom of the column in the second side, \n a liquid duct having a first end at the liquid discharge and a second end at a liquid inlet at a top of the column in the first side, \n a bottoms outlet in the bottom of the column in the first side, and \n an overhead outlet in the top of the column in the second side; \n (b) at least one processor; (c) at least one non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions; and (d) at least one receiver configured to receive data associated with at least one line in fluid communication with the column for fractionating.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23684
- Patent Class: 202.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15710669', '14041645', '15144690', '10882531', '15710626']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6690016733576336
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4812358446157873
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.650225090483449
- Mean Citation Score: 159.42424
- Max Citation Score: 174.0106
- Similarity Product: 141.5080123489618

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

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