PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15754896
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["065", "134500"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for producing a glass article includes a melting vessel, a fining vessel located downstream from the melting vessel, and a bubbling vessel that is downstream from the melting vessel and upstream from the fining vessel. The fining vessel may include at least a first zone and a second zone downstream from the first zone, wherein the average temperature of the first zone is higher than the average temperature of the second zone.

Claim (Index 3):
The apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein gas bubbles are introduced at the bottom of the bubbling vessel and are selected from at least one of the group consisting of nitrogen, oxygen, air, noble gases, and mixtures of the same.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18919
- Patent Class: 65.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11835689', '11732463', '15425517', '11193124', '13524558']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7413633661573686
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5041885188095939
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7176458814225912
- Mean Citation Score: 191.708256
- Max Citation Score: 199.83174
- Similarity Product: 140.78512138303756

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

Dataset: test