PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16375683
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["210", "739000"]

Abstract:
Settling devices for separating particles from a bulk fluid with applications in numerous fields. The particle settling devices include a first stack of cones with a small opening oriented upwardly or downwardly. Optionally, the settling devices may include a second stack of cones with a small opening oriented downwardly or upwardly. The cones may be concave or convex. These devices are useful for separating small (millimeter or micron sized) particles from a bulk fluid with applications in numerous fields, such as biological (microbial, mammalian, plant, insect or algal) cell cultures, solid catalyst particle separation from a liquid or gas and waste water treatment.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of settling particles in a suspension, comprising:\n (a) introducing a liquid suspension of particles into a settling device which includes: an upper housing with a first conical portion, a first cylindrical portion, and at least one port; a lower housing interconnectable to the upper housing and including a second conical portion, a second cylindrical portion, and at least one port; and a stack of cones located within the settling device, each cone of the stack of cones including a small opening oriented towards the first conical portion and having bodies that are concave inwardly toward a longitudinal axis of the settling device; (b) collecting a clarified liquid from the at least one port of the upper housing; and (c) collecting a concentrated liquid suspension from the at least one port of the lower housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84375
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15586902', '12572628', '15615820', '12921267', '12245541']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7262313906669947
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.548625851877887
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.708470836788084
- Mean Citation Score: 204.824178
- Max Citation Score: 407.126
- Similarity Product: 300.2321096501351

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

Dataset: test