PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16201379
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["034", "381000"]

Abstract:
The installation of one or more prefabricated drains beneath the surface of sediment in a sediment pond utilizing suction or a vacuum to withdraw water from the sediment material to lower the water level down to the level of the prefabricated drains below the pond surface. Dewatering may be coupled with imparting vibrations to the material to further promote both additional dewatering and compaction of the sediment material in the pond. A suitably graded bottom ash, fly ash, sand or large-diameter-solid particle or sediment layer may be added on top of the horizontal drains to enhance dewatering of finer sediment material.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of co-planar drains underneath at least a portion of the sediment are installed by knifing through the sediment with water jets to install the drains.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79661
- Patent Class: 34.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15652740', '13294989', '14589722', '11639357', '15381791']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7545706655579261
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6026577091239043
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7393793699145239
- Mean Citation Score: 339.102014
- Max Citation Score: 573.2306
- Similarity Product: 482.6171530606866

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

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