PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15766859
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["250", "338100"]

Abstract:
A fluid sensing system ( 30 ) including a fluid channel ( 32 ) with an inlet ( 34 ) and an outlet ( 36 ). A thermal device ( 38 ) is operably coupled thereto at a first position whereby thermal energy is transferable with fluid in the channel. A section of the fluid channel downstream of the first position has a predefined cross section and flow path. A thermal imaging device ( 46 ) is positioned to capture a thermal image of at least a portion of the downstream section. A processor ( 48 ) coupled with the thermal imaging device is configured to determine at least one output value representative of a property of the fluid medication or fluid flow using the thermal image. The output value may be the flow volume. In some embodiments, the fluid channel also defines a section upstream of the first position with the thermal imaging device capturing an image that includes at least portions of both the upstream and downstream sections.

Claim (Index 23):
The fluid sensing system of  claim 22  wherein the thermal imaging device captures a two-dimensional image defining an aspect ratio and wherein the fluid channel is disposed in a plane and defines a serpentine flow path between the inlet and the outlet; the serpentine flow path defining an overall length and overall width in the plane wherein the ratio of the overall length and overall width are substantially equivalent to the aspect ratio and the thermal imaging device is positioned to capture an image containing substantially all of the serpentine flow path between the inlet and the outlet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25316
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14508934', '14209940', '14775185', '10777078', '15350759']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6640992337045448
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4900212962917751
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6466914399632678
- Mean Citation Score: 145.060698
- Max Citation Score: 153.16913
- Similarity Product: 99.59033238813878

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

Dataset: test