PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933552
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["131", "329000"]

Abstract:
An electronic cigarette (“e-Cig”) may include functionality for monitoring and controlling the thermal properties of the e-Cig. The system and method described herein may monitor a temperature based on a resistor (i.e. hot wire) near the wick and model the thermal cycle of an e-Cig. The model can be used for controlling the temperature of the e-Cig and preventing burning. The temperature control may dictate optimal conditions for atomization and smoke generation in an e-Cig while avoiding hotspots and burning to the atomizer or cartomizer.

Claim (Index 22):
An electronic vaping device comprising:\n a vaporizer including a heating coil, the heating coil configured to heat a liquid formulation to generate a vapor; a reservoir configured to hold the liquid formulation for generating the vapor; and a controller electrically connected to the heating coil, the controller including a processor, and programmed to\n compute temperature values based on measured resistances of the heating coil, \n compute values of a heat transfer time constant based on the computed temperature values, and \n identify when the liquid formulation in the reservoir is becoming depleted based on a change in an average of the computed values of the heat transfer time constant.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62712
- Patent Class: 131.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13939987', '15599639', '14109393', '15918440', '14161209']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7645536760946904
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5455995113497352
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7426582596201948
- Mean Citation Score: 271.989142
- Max Citation Score: 409.67984
- Similarity Product: 377.5890645405388

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

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