PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16101798
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["095", "046000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of a degassing system of the present invention generally include a degassing device having a sintered metal matrix component; and a process vessel having a liquid inlet and liquid outlet through which liquid flows providing a liquid level there within; wherein the degassing device, which is fluidly connected to a pressurized gas source, is disposed within the process vessel beneath the surface of the liquid, wherein pressurized gas is introduced to the degassing device and forced through the sintered metal matrix to create gas micro-bubbles which rise through the liquid to strip volatile compounds therefrom, the gaseous composition above the surface of the liquid being evacuated through the gas outlet. In one embodiment, a degassing tower having multiple degassing chambers and degassing devices is employed. In one embodiment, a metal powder is disposed within the sintered metal matrix. Embodiments of methods of using the degassing device are also provided.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of degassing a liquid, comprising:\n providing the degassing tower of  claim 7 ; introducing said liquid to said first degassing tower chamber via said first degassing tower chamber liquid inlet; establishing a level of said liquid in said first degassing tower chamber and said second degassing tower chamber, wherein said liquid flows out of said first tower chamber via said first tower chamber liquid outlet and flows into said second tower chamber via said second tower chamber liquid inlet; and introducing a pressurized gas to said first degassing device via said first degassing tower chamber gas inlet and introducing a pressurized gas to said second degassing device via said second degassing tower chamber gas inlet, whereby at least a portion of said gas provided to each said degassing device is forced through at least a portion of at least one said sintered metal matrix, whereby gas bubbles having a diameter of at least as small as about ten micrometers are produced within said sintered metal matrices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28169
- Patent Class: 95.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14925692', '11457386', '13630091', '11430711', '10847580']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7384834742621382
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4765057497493807
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7122857018108625
- Mean Citation Score: 169.73414
- Max Citation Score: 175.60855
- Similarity Product: 129.7820179440379

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

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