PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16406784
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["427", "213000"]

Abstract:
A fluid bed granulation process and apparatus, wherein a suitable fluid bed of a particulate material is maintained in a granulator fed by an input flow comprising a growth liquid and by a flow of seeds adapted to promote the granulation, and wherein a part of said input flow is taken upstream the feeding of the fluid bed, and used in a seeds generator, to produce the seeds for the fluid bed.

Claim (Index 1):
A fluid bed granulation process of a given substance, comprising the steps of:\n providing a fluid bed of a particulate material comprising granules of said substance and solid particles of a substance working as seeds for the granulation process; feeding an input flow (F) comprising a growth liquid (L) containing said substance, to said process; feeding a flow (S 1 ) of said seeds into the fluid bed, to promote the growth of granules and to maintain the fluidized mass; and taking a flow of solid granules as output of the process carried out in the fluid bed, wherein a first portion (F 1 ) of said input flow (F) is fed directly to the fluid bed, and a second portion (F 2 ) of said input flow (F) is used to generate at least a part of said flow (S 1 ) of seeds, wherein said second portion (F 2 ) is a minor portion of said input flow, and wherein the ratio between said second portion (F 2 ) and the input flow (F) is equal to d 3 /D 3 , where d is the mean value of a characterizing dimension of said seeds and D is the mean value of a characterizing dimension of the solid granules obtained at the output of the fluid bed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87805
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12520734', '10472618', '11939915', '10474119', '10474243']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8167195353510818
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5178956139322364
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7868371432091973
- Mean Citation Score: 255.29446600000003
- Max Citation Score: 307.88657
- Similarity Product: 241.3299370624984

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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