PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15955927
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["435", "268000"]

Abstract:
A new method of disposing of waste for the hog industry is disclosed which avoids use of lagoons. Manure is semi-continuously degritted, anaerobically digested and digested with biomass to produce bio-organic fertilizer and biogas.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for the semi-continuous treatment of animal waste from an animal containment building comprising:\n a) periodically removing undiluted animal waste from the animal containment building; b) placing the removed waste in a hydrolytic degritting chamber with sufficient heated water or steam to obtain a mixture of at least about 50 degrees C. to about 60 degrees C. and degritted; c) transfer of at least a portion of the degritted mixture into an anaerobic digester chamber held at a temperature of about 50 degrees C. to about 60 degrees C. and digested; and d) transfer of at least a portion of the digested mixture to a secondary solid phase digester tank, loaded with dry biomass and fermenting the mixture at a temperature of at least about 50 degrees C. and removing the bio-organic fertilizer from the solid-phase digester.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.19355
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13814964', '13793343', '12572871', '15638193', '14852836']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5744191549340366
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4855134124421252
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5655285806848456
- Mean Citation Score: 190.517832
- Max Citation Score: 194.21896
- Similarity Product: 133.3947801028109

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

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