PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967273
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["588", "401000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods related to desalination systems are described herein. According to some embodiments, the desalination systems are transiently operated and/or configured to facilitate transient operation. In some embodiments, a liquid stream comprising water and at least one dissolved salt is circulated through a fluidic circuit comprising a desalination system. In some embodiments, a portion of the desalination system (e.g., a humidifier) is configured to remove at least a portion of the water from the liquid stream to produce a concentrated brine stream enriched in the dissolved salt. In certain cases, the concentrated brine stream is recirculated through the fluidic circuit until the concentrated brine stream reaches a relatively high density (e.g., at least about 10 pounds per gallon) and/or a relatively high salinity (e.g., a total dissolved salt concentration of at least about 25 wt %). In certain embodiments, additional salt is added to the concentrated brine stream to produce an ultra-high-density brine stream (e.g., a brine stream having a density of at least about 11.7 pounds per gallon). Some aspects relate to a system that is configured to promote energy efficiency by recovering heat from the recirculated concentrated brine stream upon discharge from the fluidic circuit.

Claim (Index 32):
The method according to  claim 31 , wherein the solid salt comprises NaCl.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46667
- Patent Class: 588.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14719239', '15464390', '14719189', '14992244', '16078704']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8144573009972264
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5897050417726502
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7919820750747687
- Mean Citation Score: 565.1310700000001
- Max Citation Score: 604.8669
- Similarity Product: 417.0069684858442

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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