PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16060262
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["568", "865000"]

Abstract:
The invention provides a continuous process for the preparation of ethylene glycol and 1,2-propylene glycol from starting material comprising one or more saccharides, said process comprising providing a feedstock comprising said one or more saccharides in a solvent to a reactor, said reactor having supported therein a heterogeneous hydrogenation catalytic composition and contacting the feedstock therein directly with said heterogeneous hydrogenation catalytic composition and concurrently with a retro-aldol catalyst composition in the presence of hydrogen, wherein said reactor operates in an essentially plug flow manner.

Claim (Index 9):
The process as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the first reactor is selected from the group consisting of tubular reactors, pipe reactors, falling film reactors, staged reactors, packed bed reactors, trickle bed reactors and shell and tube type heat exchangers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67925
- Patent Class: 568.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16060221', '16466826', '16344850', '14914037', '15763714']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7561888551249069
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5194548955270061
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7325154591651168
- Mean Citation Score: 274.215978
- Max Citation Score: 308.66537
- Similarity Product: 242.59140958645105

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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