PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16302028
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["159", "016200"]

Abstract:
A submerged combustion apparatus for heating a liquid including a liquid vessel that contains the liquid, a combustion chamber including a combustion chamber body, an inlet and a plurality of discharge ports, the combustion chamber body being positioned in the vessel so that at least the discharge ports are submerged in liquid in use, a burner that allows an air/fuel mixture to be burned at least partially within the combustion chamber thereby causing bubbles of heated gaseous combustion products to be emitted from the discharge ports so as to heat the liquid and a guide surface spaced apart from and extending along at least part of a length of a combustion chamber body outer surface so as to guide bubbles emitted from the discharge ports so that the bubbles are at least partially constrained to flow between the combustion chamber body outer surface and the guide surface.

Claim (Index 17):
Apparatus according to  claim 15 , wherein the level sensor includes at least one pressure sensor, and wherein the controller determines a liquid level based on a pressure sensed by the pressure sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4127
- Patent Class: 159.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10832587', '13157606', '14785330', '11186459', '15610215']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6913787888636617
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5570326591322633
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6779441758905218
- Mean Citation Score: 223.866594
- Max Citation Score: 241.64226
- Similarity Product: 168.30390691157342

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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