PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906577
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["209", "010000"]

Abstract:
A contactor is positioned coaxially with and substantially within at least one separator, and otherwise is configured to receive aerosolized target particles of interest as a sample. The use of a plurality of separators that are coaxial with each other and the contactor increases the number of separations involving target particles and other constituents of air at a sampling point, whereby in some embodiments the separators are rotatably configurable relative to each other and to the contactor.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for separating constituents including aerosolized particles found in the headspace of bulk materials, comprising:\n transferring constituents through a conduit from a sampling point to a separator that surrounds a collector, by arranging an airflow from the sampling point, through the conduit, and into the separator, wherein the conduit comprises a first conduit opening in communication with the sampling point and a second conduit opening in communication with the separator to define a substantially closed transfer path from the sampling point to the separator; configuring the separator so the constituents enter through an inlet positioned where the conduit attaches to an opening in the separator; arranging the airflow to move in a rotational gas movement pattern inside the separator and to exert a centrifugal force on the constituents after entering the separator; positioning the separator co-axially around a contactor so the contactor is substantially surrounded by the separator; configuring the contactor with a contactor opening in the surface of the contactor and therefore in the interior of the separator, through which some constituents enter the contactor from the separator, wherein the contactor opening is oriented tangentially relative to a central axis of the separator and to the conduit that transfers the constituents from the sampling point; wherein movement of constituents in the separator is determined by the exerted centrifugal airflow rotation such that constituents either enter the contactor through the contactor opening at the interior of the separator, or are forced outward and away from the contractor opening based on the centrifugal force imparted on them by the rotational airflow in the separator; and contacting constituents that enter the contactor with a carrier liquid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55769
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14584215', '15229846', '13078999', '12348709', '15078788']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6251840344004641
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5434618926584841
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6170118202262661
- Mean Citation Score: 213.542986
- Max Citation Score: 403.4296
- Similarity Product: 328.574402252388

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

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