PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982377
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "634000"]

Abstract:
An optical liquid height determination system of the present embodiments includes light sensors capturing different amounts of light, based on level of liquid in the tank that blocks or limits light to particular sensors. The tank is enclosed in a container with a light source and the light sensors are installed on walls of the container. Light emitted by the light source is transmitted to the light sensors by passing through the liquid product, scattered, diffused, diffracted or reflected by the dairy product, through the tank walls which may be transparent or translucent, or from other surfaces in the container within which the tank is enclosed by. The set of electrical signals received from all the light sensors are compared against sets of calibrated signals corresponding to known liquid levels in the tank. The known height corresponding to the nearest set of calibrated signals is determined as the measured liquid height in the tank.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 8 , wherein executing mathematical calculations includes converting the electrical signal value from each of the at least two light sensors other than the reference sensor into a corresponding measured ratio relative to the reference sensor electrical signal value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15489066', '15226968', '14547828', '12094821', '14397130']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7050935574193359
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4909056507948319
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6836747667568854
- Mean Citation Score: 157.38065
- Max Citation Score: 161.166
- Similarity Product: 99.73797178781032

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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