Patent Documentation Research Articles

Steam Distillation for Essential Oil Extraction: An Evaluation of Technological Advances Based on an Analysis of Patent Documents

The most-used method for essential oil extraction is steam distillation due to its simplicity and low investment requirements. Due to the importance of this extractive method, technological updates represent an immense opportunity for improving this component of essential oil production. In order to evaluate how such updates have been applied to essential oil production, in this study, we conducted a technological prospection. A total of 490 patent documents were retrieved and indicators were evaluated, which included publication trends, main applicants and inventors of the prospected technologies, main depositing countries and potential markets for the inventions, and classification codes assigned to the patent documents. The results indicated that steam distillation is used by different sectors and that it is an important industrial process that has been growing in recent years. In terms of associated technological updates, we observed that only some patent documents referred to the application of technological updates, indicating that processes could still be investigated and incorporated into the technology. Thus, the advancement of studies to improve this process could contribute even more to its visible growth, increasing its application potential and process yield.

Treatment of Oily Effluents Through the Combination of Flotation and Wetland in Thermal Plants Under the Focus of Patent Documents: A Prospective Study

This study aimed to present a technological search for technologies in the processing of oily effluents through the physical-chemical flotation and biological wetland process generated in thermoelectric plants in the patent database of the Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) using keywords. We found few studies for thermal power plant-effluent processing technologies and combined technologies for flotation and wetland effluent treatment. Patents indicated high efficiency in the combination of the processes. We did not find studies in Brazil for treatment technologies of effluents in thermoelectric plants. However, due to the country's energy scenario, investments in research in this area are recommended.

PROSPECTS FOR THE USE OF RAW MATERIALS OF HERACULUM SOSNOWSKYI IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACY

Annotation: One of the important problems of modern pharmacy is the search for new types of medicinal plant raw materials. During the analysis of scientific literature and patent documentation and chemical analysis of raw materials of borscht, the presence of a significant amount of biologically active substances was revealed, which allows us to consider this type of raw materials as promising sources of obtaining new medicines. The raw materials were dried and morphological and microdiagnostic signs were analyzed on whole samples, in accordance with the requirements of the OFS.1.5.1.0003.15 Leaves and OFS.1.5.3.0003.15 Technique of microscopic and microchemical research of medicinal plant raw materials and medicinal plant preparations.

Повышение безопасности и эффективности уборки осевшей пыли в помещениях горно-обогатительных предприятий

The results of study are given concerning the issues of improving safety and efficiency of cleaning settled dust in the premises of mining and processing enterprises using a mobile autonomous dust collection unit. The following is used in the work: data from literary sources and patent documentation in the field of technologies and technical means to improve safety and efficiency of cleaning settled dust in the premises of mining and processing enterprises; substantiation of the parameters of the operational characteristics of a mobile autonomous dust collecting plant; laboratory and production experiments; physical modeling. It is shown that when cleaning dust from the metal structures, equipment, as well as covering their surfaces, two nozzles were used: for cleaning caked dust and a flattened pipe with a diameter of 25 mm. Cleaning speed of 1 m2 of metal structures was 1.6–1.9 min. It was found that on the horizontal and lateral surfaces, as well as on the floor, a nozzle with a slit length of 240 mm and a width of 4.3 mm showed good results. Cleaning speed with such a nozzle is 1.33–1.48 m2/min. When the concrete floor is uneven or the thickness of the dust layer increased to 5–8 mm, the cleaning speed decreased to 0.55 m2/min. The design of the dust collecting plant and its operation modes are proposed, which allow collecting up to 0.6 t/h of the settled dust. Dust content in the air in the crushing shop of the sorting plant of the Rodina mine (Krivoy Rog, Ukraine) after cleaning the settled dust decreased from 4.5 to 2.5 mg/m3. Economic calculations showed that in addition to the social effect of using a dust collecting plant, an additional economic effect is possible, obtained by recovery and return of the collected dust to the technological process. The results of industrial tests confirmed its high efficiency. For the conditions of its work at the crushing and sorting factory of the Rodina mine, the expected economic effect is 5960 UAH per year.

Secure of Transmission Systems in the Visible Range of Light with the Power Line Communication Interface

The paper discusses the issue of creating a secure environment for information transmission in an association dependent on Noticeable Light Correspondence (VLC) innovation utilizing a Power Line Correspondence (PLC) modem. Throughout the examination, an investigation of homegrown and unfamiliar writing and patent documentation was done, which affirmed the significance of this point and the need to improve and adjust the innovation for homegrown associations, the conceivably better security of the framework from unapproved admittance to information was validated in correlation with wired and Wi-Fi organizations., which executes information transmission dependent on VLC innovation, utilizing Light-Emitting Diode (LED). Lighting sources as transmitters of the correspondence framework, with the coordination of the PLC interface. The utilization of the PLC interface makes it conceivable to improve on the establishment and execution of the VLC communicating modules since the data signal is provided to the last through the electrical cables that give capacity to the lighting installations. An evaluation of the working states of an information transmission framework dependent on VLC innovation with a PLC interface was completed, which uncovered that with the base admissible sign to-clamor proportion equivalent to 6 dB, the channel data transfer capacity is 8 Mbps, and the bit mistake rate will in general zero. The examination results can be utilized to assemble a corporate organization utilizing VLC innovation with a PLC interface, and discover their application for additional investigation of this innovation.

Inter-lingual correspondence between the conceptual systems of patent law in Russia and the United States

Due to its deep connection with international law and the requirement to register patents in every country where protection of an invention is sought, patent law requires an immense number of translations every year. Nevertheless, considerable diversity in national patent legislations around the world hinders translation of patent documentation because of significant terminology differences. This paper studies patent law terminology equivalence in Russian and U.S. patent law. The main objective is to identify concept correlation between the main patent law terms in the U.S. and Russian legal systems and to classify the identified term-pairs according to their degree of equivalency, pointing out problematic cases and suggesting ways of their resolution for better translation of documents in this field. This objective is reached through comparative definitional analysis of the key patent law terminological units extracted from legislation texts, monolingual term glossaries, and bilingual term dictionaries. Notwithstanding the predominance of full equivalents, the research shows that national patent law systems preserve their characteristic features which result in a significant number of partially equivalent and non-equivalent terms, many of which are related to the very basic patent law concepts such as patentability. However, no currently existing bilingual English-Russian or Russian-English dictionary provides up-to-date and accurate information about Russian and American patent law terms with all necessary remarks concerning possible differences between the concepts. The research results can serve as the basis for compilation of a specialised bilingual glossary of Russian and American patent terms which can be used as a reference during translation of patent documentation.

Candidancy and Recommendation of Board Members for the Fiscal Year 2022 / Recommendation for the 47th INFOSTA Awards / Patent Documentation Committee

Candidancy and Recommendation of Board Members for the Fiscal Year 2022 / Recommendation for the 47th INFOSTA Awards / Patent Documentation Committee

INFOSTA Seminar / The INFOPRO 2022 Symposium / Guide to 2022 Qualifying Examination for Information Specialist / Join the 9th 3i Study Group / Patent Documentation Committee / The 65th General Assembly Meeting

INFOSTA Seminar / The INFOPRO 2022 Symposium / Guide to 2022 Qualifying Examination for Information Specialist / Join the 9th 3i Study Group / Patent Documentation Committee / The 65th General Assembly Meeting

Candidancy and Recommendation of Board Members for the Fiscal Year 2022 / Recommendation for the 47th INFOSTA Awards / Guide to 2021 Qualifying Examination for Information Specialist / The INFOPRO 2022 Symposium / Patent Documentation Committee / New Year Seminar

Candidancy and Recommendation of Board Members for the Fiscal Year 2022 / Recommendation for the 47th INFOSTA Awards / Guide to 2021 Qualifying Examination for Information Specialist / The INFOPRO 2022 Symposium / Patent Documentation Committee / New Year Seminar

Аналіз світових тенденцій у наукових розробках із захисту плодових насаджень від заморозків

The main trends in scientific research on the protection of fruit plantations from spring frosts were analyzed based on the study of patent documentation of the countries of the world. China and the USA have the largest shares of patented developments by countries that have issued protection documents. The number of scientific studies on the mentioned problem and the patenting of their results increased significantly in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, confirming its relevance for world fruit growing. But in the 20s of the 21st century, the number of patents issued in the USA, Canada, Japan, Ukraine, as well as WIPO and EPO decreased significantly, while those issued in China increased several times. Among all methods of protecting orchards from frost, only 15 % were patented after 2010. For devices (protective shelters/screens, their designs), 48 % of protection documents were issued after 2010. After 2010, 42 % of patents were issued on devices for protecting plantations from frost, of which only 8 % are mobile. Among all means of protecting fruit plantations from frost, only 8 % were patented after 2010. Researchers have proposed different approaches to protecting plants from frost due to the wide variety of the distribution of the value of the temperature decrease indicator and their duration in most regions where fruit crops are grown. In recent decades, the improvement of previously developed methods and means, devices and devices for protecting fruit crops from frost, and their combination in various variants to improve protection, has been carried out. Systems for controlling weather conditions in plantations and controlling frost protection devices, both remote and automatic, were also created.

Notice of automatic payment of 2022 membership fee / The INFOPRO 2022 Symposium / Guide to 2022 Qualifying Examination for Information Specialist / Join the 9th 3i Study Group / Patent Documentation Committee / INFOSTA Seminar / The 65th General Assembly Meeting

Notice of automatic payment of 2022 membership fee / The INFOPRO 2022 Symposium / Guide to 2022 Qualifying Examination for Information Specialist / Join the 9th 3i Study Group / Patent Documentation Committee / INFOSTA Seminar / The 65th General Assembly Meeting

Dekonstrukcja wolnego zawodu w systemie totalitarnym na przykładzie regulacji prawnej wykonywania zawodu rzecznika patentowego w Polsce w okresie stalinowskim

In Poland before the Second World War, the profession of patent attorney was categorised as one of the so-called liberal professions. Its legal status and rules of practice were compared to the solicitor profession. A patent attorney practiced his profession personally, independently, and autonomously. In order to exercise his profession, he ran an independent patent attorney’s office. In the second half of the 1940s, with the communists taking power in Poland, a radical transformation of the social, political, economic, and legal system of the state along the lines of Stalin’s Soviet Union began. Any social, political, or economic activities characterised by independence and autonomy were thus in axiological contradiction with the ideology of the planned totalitarian state. The Act on the Establishment of the College of Patent Attorneys passed on 20 December 1949 completely abolished the structure of the patent attorney profession as a free profession, exercised in its own name and on its own account. From that moment on, the patent attorney became a civil servant performing their professional activities under strict hierarchical subordination to his superiors. There was no guarantee of their intellectual independence or professional autonomy. The practice of the patent attorney profession was subject to public law. The Patent Attorneys College was in fact another state office. It was organisationally and financially linked to the Patent Office — an administrative body granting legal protection to objects of industrial and commercial property, collecting and making available patent documentation and literature. The president of the Patent Office supervised the Patent Attorneys College. Both the Patent Attorneys College and the Patent Office were supervised by the State Economic Planning Commission. The State Commission for Economic Planning was a kind of super-ministry, tasked with a Soviet-style mission of closely supervising and controlling the entire centralised economy of the Polish state. The chairman of the State Economic Planning Commission also had key powers to influence patent attorneys. It was he who determined the subject of their professional examination, he who appointed a person meeting the statutory requirements to the position of a patent attorney. He could also exempt a candidate for the profession from meeting the requirements as well as appoint the president of the Patent Attorneys College. The Act of 20 December 1949 was repealed with the end of the Stalinist period in Poland. In 1958, the profession of patent attorney was briefly reinstated as a free profession. After that, until the end of the existence of the socialist state called the Polish People’s Republic, patent attorneys performed their profession as employees within the meaning of the labour law. It was not until the fall of communism in Poland that the profession of a patent attorney was re-established as a liberal profession under the provisions of the Act on Patent Attorneys of 9 January 1993.

Technological solutions for processing of fruits and vegetables: a patent mini-review for 2009-present

Agricultural waste and food and processing industry waste are sources of food and biologically active substances with high nutritive value. In this regard, the development of technologies for the processing of waste and secondary raw materials can be considered as one of the promising areas for the development of alternative technologies in the production of new types of food products, which will allow for more effective development of complex deep processing of raw materials. One of the most valuable types of secondary raw materials is the waste of vegetable raw materials obtained as a result of technological processes of processing fruits and vegetables in the production of canned products. At the same time, today a rather low efficiency of waste processing is observed, which in the CIS countries on average accounts for about 45% of production and consumption waste, including in the food processing industry. For comparison, in European countries, the share of waste involved in re-production is 80–87%. In these conditions, the search for technological methods and solutions that allow the most complete use of the full potential of plant raw materials remains relevant. The article presents the results of the analysis of patent documentation for innovative developments in the use of waste generated during the production of canned products to obtain new types of functional food products.

Research of trends in the development of laser additive manufacturing in the Russian Federation on the basis of patent information

The article presents the results of the analysis of patent documentation on laser additive manufacturing registered in the territory of the Russian Federation. As a result of the research, the dynamics of patent activity is determined, the top patent holders, the leading countries in the considered technological field are identified, the top of inventors is compiled, the main technological segments for application of patented solutions from the field of laser additive manufacturing are identified.

Application of Liposomes in Cancer Therapy: An Assessment of the Advancement of Technology Through Patent Documents.

Cancer is caused by mutations in oncogenes and loss of tumor suppressor activity. Despite the efforts of the pharmaceutical industry to fight cancer, it is necessary to investigate new methods to enhance the action against this disease. In this scenario, liposome technology has emerged as a drug delivery system for cancer treatment. The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of liposome technology in the treatment of cancer through analysis of patent documents. We analyzed prospective documents in the Derwent Innovation Index database. A total of 203 patent documents were related to the area of interest, published between 2000 and 2020, and the USA and Japan were shown as countries with the largest number of publications. Moreover, most of these publications came from companies, however, also with the representation of important universities, mainly the University of California. According to the International Patent Classification, the codes most applicable to the documents were in the areas of human necessities and chemistry. The results of this study showed that the study and application of liposomes for the development of cancer treatment tended to grow, along with the number of related patents.

Technological Trends in the Use of Natural Marble Residue in the Cement Portland Production from Prospecting in Patent Documents

The civil construction industry affects the environment mainly due to the high generation of waste and extraction of natural raw materials. However, this industry is also responsible for absorbing a large part of the waste, not only generated by itself, but also those generated in other production cycles. These residues are often reused as an alternative raw material, after some treatment. The use of ornamental stone cutting waste has already been studied by many authors, and it is a technically viable alternative in cement matrix products for civil construction. Thus, this technological prospection work analyzed the technological trends regarding the use of marble waste in cement production, based on the registration of patents in recent years. For this, a search was carried out in the Brazilian Nacional Institute of Intellectual Property (INPI) and Dewert Innovation Index (DII) databases, in April 2021, with no period limitation. The main documents were found in the DII database, and the results showed that among the countries that filed a patent on this subject, China is the country with the highest number of filings, with the majority of these filings occurring between 2014 and 2020, suggesting a reflection of the current interest in ways to give an adequate destination to ornamental stone waste.

Improving the Discovery of Technological Opportunities Using Patent Classification Based on Explainable Neural Networks

Purpose: The paper aims to present an approach supporting the improvement of technological opportunities discovery using patent classification based on explainable neural networks. Design/Methodology/Approach: Empirical research was conducted applying a dataset containing U.S. patent documents. Firstly, this dataset was checked for the correctness of the saved patent data to be further analyzed. Then, a custom Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) Neural Network was developed and trained. Finally, the Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations (LIME) method was applied for interpreting the results achieved with the BERT classifier. Findings: The studied classifier achieved high quality (precision of 80.6%), allowing correct classification of the technologies described in the patents. Such neural classifiers are easy to use in practice and highly versatile; however, there is an insufficient trust of managers in the decisions suggested by that black-box method. The proposed new approach may help overcome the lack of trust of the users of neural models towards the technological opportunities suggested by them. Practical Implications: Various patent databases are often used to discover innovative solutions, as well as economic and technological opportunities, because they contain vast resources of prosperous and extensive information recorded in patent documentation. Such analyzes are critical to businesses and public organizations as they help them make decisions about carrying out strategic investment projects. The presented approach, which supports the improvement of automated processes of technological opportunities discovery, may increase confidence in the results obtained using neural classifiers. Originality/Value: Earlier studies focused mainly on using more effective classifiers and better learning algorithms. Progress in this type of research did not help solve the problem of the lack of reliable justification for individual decisions indicated by machine learning models. In this study, a proposal for an approach enables the discovery of technological opportunities using patent classification based on explainable neural networks.

Outlet facility to pass coal flow to armored face conveyor

The authors review the international experience in thick coal seam mining. Advantages and disadvantages of multi-slice and full-seam longwall mining technologies are compared. The low-efficiency multi-slice longwall mining is little used and is being replaced by the full-seam longwall top coal caving technology with undercut and with top coal disintegration under the physical effect of overburden pressure. In the recent decade, the longwall mining systems used in top coal caving have been given additional functions connected with control of coal extraction above and behind the powered roof support. The authors have examined the patent documentation and invention activity in the field of the LTCC methods and equipment in the top coal mining countries. This paper describes the revealed trends in engineering facilities capable to enhance efficiency of longwall top coal caving in mining of thick coal seams. Different type feeders are described, and recommendations on their application are given.

Evaluation of efficiency and environmental safety of leaching metals from ore: ways of development and prospects

The object of research is traditional mining technologies and technical means in combination with underground block leaching (UBL) of metals from rock ores with their preliminary crushing with explosives in installations mounted in mine workings. One of the most problematic areas is the difficulty of achieving a given crushing quality, as well as the required height of ore storage in the chamber for the subsequent leaching of metals and a loosening factor, taking into account the control of the energy of explosive destruction of rock ores. The study used: – data from literary sources and patent documentation in the field of technologies and technical means for UBL of metals from ores in energy disturbed massifs, substantiation of technological parameters of operational blocks; – laboratory and production experiments; – physical modeling of metal extraction from ores from the average linear size of a piece of blasted ore. Analytical studies, comparative analysis of theoretical and practical results using standard and new methods were carried out with the participation of the authors. It was found that the most intensive infiltration leaching occurs when the size class of ore lumps is –100+0 mm. Metals are extracted from fractions –200+100 mm less intensively and for a longer time. To neutralize and flush the spent ore mass, it is recommended to treat it with lime solution and mine water through wells for supplying leaching solutions (irrigation system). The protection of the hydrogeological environment is carried out by silting the bottom of the chamber for collecting productive solutions with clay solution and by constant monitoring of mine water pollution in the zone of UBL influence. On the basis of the positive results obtained from the study and implementation of technologies for UBL of metals from rock ores during the development of block 5–86, in accordance with the recommendations issued, the same approach was used for blocks 5–84–86 and 5–88–90, as well as industrial experimental block 1–75–79. Due to the involvement in the production of substandard ores, the raw material base for the extraction of metals, at the operating mines, can be increased by 1.4–1.6 times. The research results can be used in underground mining of ore deposits of complex structure in Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kazakhstan and other developed mining countries of the world.

Інформаційне забезпечення наукових досліджень: правовий аспект

The article considers the concept of «information», its interpretation and definition by both scientists and the Law of Ukraine «On Information». The main principles of information relations are presented. The main directions of the state information policy are noted. The key types of information are covered. Definition and legal regime of scientific and technical information are presented. It is indicated that scientific and technical information covers the results obtained in the process of scientific and research, research and development, design and technological, production and public activities, recorded in a form that ensures their reproduction, use and dissemination. It is stressed the need to expand the direction of information development, not limiting this area only by technical component of scientific activity and ignoring the humanitarian direction, because the information concerning scientific activity in general, including in the humanities, in the sphere of social sciences and in other scientific spheres is left out of consideration. It is noted that the main base of the scientific and technical information is formed with information resources, which are a systematic collection of scientific and technical literature and documents (books, brochures, periodicals, patent and design documentation, industrial catalogs, deposited manuscripts, scientific and research reports) fixed on papers or other storages. The main types of information activities and areas of information are given. The importance of information support in conducting scientific research is indicated and the search for the necessary information is of great significance for the effective conduct of scientific research, as the researcher spends about 50 % of his time on the process of finding information. The importance of the information for humanity is highlighted. Keywords: information, information support, science, scientific researches