Guaranteed adjustment basis

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Guaranteed adjustment basis (GAB)l Patent and Trademark Office failure to take certain actions within 14 months from filing date and four months from other events Patent and Trademark Office must mail an examination notification (first Office action including Quayle action or notice of allowability, restriction requirement and request for information, but NOT OIPE notice of incompleteness of application or other such notices) to applicant within 14 months of the filing date Patent and Trademark Office must also respond within four months to the applicant s reply to an office action or applicant s opening appeal brief Patent and Trademark Office must act within four months of a board of patent appeals and interferences (BPAI) or court decision, where allowable claims remain in the application Patent and Trademark Office must issue the patent within four months of date on which the issue fee is paid, and all outstanding requirements are satisfied. 

The boric acid and demineralized water control system is necessary to adjust the boron concentration in the reactor coolant system. To increase boron concentration in the coolant, boric acid solution is injected through the volume control system to reduce boron concentration, an adequate volume of coolant is replaced by demineralized water. This system (as well as the other systems discussed here) is a purely operational system and is not required for control of a design basis accident the extra borating system fulfils the necessary safety functions. However, to guarantee continued supply to the volume control system during emergency power operation, the pumps and motor-operated valves of the system are connected to the emergency power supply system. 

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