PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15755782
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["356", "036000"]

Abstract:
A ballast water monitoring device and a method for detecting live phytoplankton are disclosed. The device comprises a chamber for receiving a sample, at least one light source to emit light towards the sample, a light detector to receive light from the sample and generate a light signal, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the at least one light source to emit a single pulse of light, calculate the variable fluorescence [Fv] of the sample in response to the pulse of light, at time intervals less than the duration of the pulse of light, compare the calculated variable fluorescence to a predetermined reference limit, and perform an action if the calculated variable fluorescence is greater than the predetermined reference limit.

Claim (Index 26):
A system comprising:\n a ballast water treatment system; and a ballast water monitoring device comprising: a chamber for receiving a sample; at least one light source to emit light towards the sample;\n a light detector to receive light from the sample and generate a light signal; and \n a controller configured to: \n control the at least one light source to emit a single pulse of light, calculate the variable fluorescence [Fv] of the sample in response to the pulse of light, at time intervals less than the duration of the pulse of light,\n compare the calculated variable fluorescence to a predetermined reference limit, and \n perform an action if the calculated variable fluorescence is greater than the predetermined reference limit, \n wherein the ballast water monitoring device controls the ballast water treatment system to activate a means for eliminating live phytoplankton cells.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07692
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12887948', '14442409', '14176474', '13513786', '11926196']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6842987785353345
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4625178525258117
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6621206859343823
- Mean Citation Score: 150.39562999999995
- Max Citation Score: 159.3048
- Similarity Product: 124.81910193386078

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

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