PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["210", "674000"]

Abstract:
Novel water softening products and methods of treating hard water are provided. The products comprise a salt and a metal chelating agent. The products are useful for regenerating ion exchange material in a water softening system and providing softened water containing both sodium and potassium ions, while having dramatically increased efficiencies over prior art products.

Claim (Index 1):
A product for use in regenerating an ion exchange material in a water softening system, said product comprising a metal chelating agent intermixed with a salt, wherein:\n said metal chelating agent is selected from the group consisting of sodium citrate, potassium citrate, sodium succinate, potassium succinate, aspartate, maleate, ethylenediamine tetraacetate, ethylene glycol tetraacetate, polymerized amino acids, 1,2-bis(o-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N\u2032,N\u2032-tetraacetate, sulfonated polycarboxylate copolymers, polymethacrylate, and mixtures thereof, and is present at levels of less than about 75 ppm, based on said salt; and said salt is selected from the group consisting of NaCl, KCl, K2SO 4 , NaHCO 3 , Na 2 SO 4 , NaH 2 PO 4 , KHCO 3 , KH 2 PO 4 , K 2 HPO 4 , K 3 PO 4 , Na 3 PO 4 , Na 2 CO 3 , K 2 CO 3 , and mixtures thereof, said product being a solid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.37209
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14461058', '12609226', '13987764', '12895072', '13142396']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7810304179805105
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5486053489540753
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.757787911077867
- Mean Citation Score: 247.766914
- Max Citation Score: 434.2698
- Similarity Product: 316.7913788902402

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

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