PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940166
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["366", "165100"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for generating a swirl is disclosed that is used to induce an axi-symmetric swirling flow to an incoming flow. The disclosed subject matter induces a uniform and axi-symmetric swirl, circumferentially around a discharge location, thus imparting a more accurate, repeatable, continuous, and controllable swirl and mixing condition of interest. Moreover, the disclosed subject matter performs the swirl injection at a lower pressure drop in comparison to a more traditional methods and devices.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 9 , wherein a rotation of the axially-symmetric swirling flow is either a clockwise swirl or a counterclockwise swirl.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57407
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14534263', '10422265', '15577934', '15382112', '14645959']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8284986805650254
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5397394795197133
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7996227604604942
- Mean Citation Score: 260.192288
- Max Citation Score: 475.47507
- Similarity Product: 296.7822932446504

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

Dataset: test