PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949207
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["210", "688000"]

Abstract:
A system may include a reactor, in which an anaerobic environment exists, that includes a slurry of at least contaminated water and a mixed bacterial culture of facultative bacteria and anaerobic bacteria. The mixed bacterial culture may be suspended within the slurry. The contaminated water may include contaminants associated with a non-metal, a metal, or a metalloid. The mixed bacterial culture may react with the contaminated water to reduce or remove the contaminants from the contaminated water to create a treated slurry. The reactor may output the treated slurry. The system may also include a filtration device to receive the treated slurry; remove, from the treated slurry, the mixed bacterial culture and the contaminants, reduced or removed from the contaminated water, to create treated water; and output the treated water. The system may also include an aeration device to add dissolved oxygen to the treated water, and output the treated water. The system may also include a reaction device where iron or aluminum salts are added to remove phosphorous, selenite, arsenate, or other contaminants which adsorb onto iron or aluminum oxyhydroxide solids. The system may also include a filtration device to remove the solids from the water, and output the treated water.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for treating contaminated water, the method comprising:\n providing an anaerobic environment comprising a suspended mixed bacterial culture of metal reducing bacteria, wherein the mixed bacterial culture is not attached to a physical substrate associated with attached growth technology; providing a slurry of contaminated water, wherein the contaminated water comprises one or more contaminants selected from the group consisting of a perchlorate, a metal, and a metalloid; providing an organic material, wherein the organic material is selected from the group consisting of a low molecular weight organic acid and a simple carbohydrate, wherein the organic material acts as an electron donor for the mixed bacterial culture; biologically and/or chemically reducing the contaminants in the contaminated water by delivering the contaminated water and organic material to the anaerobic environment, wherein the organic material mediates the biological and/or chemical reduction and precipitation of the contaminants in the contaminated water by the metal reducing bacteria and wherein the biological and/or chemical reduction and precipitation takes place in the anaerobic environment; and removing the reduced and precipitated contaminants from the contaminated water to produce treated water; and retaining at least a portion of the mixed bacterial culture with a filtration device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.05405
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14558907', '12666625', '11288713', '10205816', '12832723']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.789341318390788
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6075218358917289
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7711593701408821
- Mean Citation Score: 301.63065399999994
- Max Citation Score: 578.2081
- Similarity Product: 490.1354263932108

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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