PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15766982
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["429", "002000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for controlling operation of a microbial fuel cell arrangement having at least one microbial fuel cell unit. The unit comprises an anode and a cathode, which are connected with each other via an external electrical circuit. In the method an influent flow of liquid medium, which comprises organic substance(s), is fed to the microbial fuel cell unit, and at least a part of the organic substance(s) are converted into electrical energy in the microbial fuel cell unit by using microorganisms. Potential of the anode is measured against a reference electrode and obtaining measurement value(s), and the measured value(s) are used for controlling the feed of the influent flow to the microbial fuel cell unit. An effluent flow of treated liquid medium is removed from the microbial fuel cell unit. The invention relates also to microbial fuel cell, which comprises a controller, which is arranged in functional contact with the means for measuring the potential of the anode and with the means for adjusting the influent flow to the inlet.

Claim (Index 4):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the arrangement comprises a plurality of microbial fuel cell units arranged in series, whereby the anode potential of at least one microbial fuel cell unit is measured and the feed of the influent flow to the arrangement is controlled and/or adjusted.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43902
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15755076', '13198709', '12478721', '14650251', '13950987']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8825020246134987
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4950271040855302
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8437545325607019
- Mean Citation Score: 221.286786
- Max Citation Score: 263.92166000000003
- Similarity Product: 205.0310299169612

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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