PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926851
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["203", "039000"]

Abstract:
The invention is directed to a device and associated method for recovering at least one product from a fermentation broth. The invention relates to the use of a vacuum distillation vessel to recover products, such as ethanol, from a fermentation broth, where the fermentation broth comprises viable microbial biomass, and where the recovery of the product is completed in such a manner to ensure the viability of the microbial biomass. The invention provides for product recovery at an effective rate so as to prevent the accumulation of product in the fermentation broth. To ensure the viability of the microbial biomass, the invention is designed to reduce the amount of stress on the microbial biomass. By ensuring the viability of the microbial biomass, the microbial biomass may be recycled and reused in the fermentation process, which may result in an increased efficiency of the fermentation process.

Claim (Index 5):
The vacuum distillation vessel according to  claim 1 , wherein the separation medium is defined by a series of distillation trays.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30882
- Patent Class: 203.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13058727', '12036859', '13477827', '13901455', '13684215']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7386162416036046
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5213294226079754
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7168875597040417
- Mean Citation Score: 277.22125800000003
- Max Citation Score: 291.68436
- Similarity Product: 173.75690227928644

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

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