PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742399
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["554", "175000"]

Abstract:
A process for obtaining free fatty acid and/or free fatty acid ester, including separating a liquid mixture containing the free fatty acid and/or the fatty acid ester by contacting a vapor of the liquid mixture in a column of a distillation apparatus with condensate formed from the vapor running downward. Heat and mass transfer takes place between the vapor and the condensate on column internals. The column has at least 10 theoretical plates and the separation is conducted with a pressure drop between the top and bottom of the column of Δp of ≥3.3 mbars. Appropriately, the liquid mixture, contains polyunsaturated fatty acid, preferably omega-6 or omega-3 fatty acid and/or alkyl monoesters and/or glycerol monoesters. In one embodiment the column has at least 30 theoretical plates and the separation is conducted with a pressure drop Δp between 3.5 mbar and 6 mbar.

Claim (Index 24):
The process according to  claim 23 , further including processing a top product, obtained at a top of the distillation apparatus by the separating, again by the process and mixing a second bottom product thus obtained with a second top product obtained by the short-path distillation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01333
- Patent Class: 554.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14400652', '13519618', '13825739', '11387654', '14520856']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6766427995964154
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4846263507931389
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6574411547160878
- Mean Citation Score: 182.591196
- Max Citation Score: 190.00383
- Similarity Product: 134.37080874433994

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

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