PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887610
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["073", "861610"]

Abstract:
A flowmeter includes an orifice plate assembly having a carrier that includes an aperture, an annular rim disposed about the aperture, and an annular ledge extending radially inward from the rim to the aperture. An orifice plate and annular seal are disposed within the annular rim. The plate engages the ledge and is retained on the carrier by a retaining ring and the energized annular seal. The seal is disposed in a seal gland formed between the orifice plate, the carrier, and the ring member, and sealingly engages at least one surface of each.

Claim (Index 24):
A method of making an orifice plate carrier comprising:\n placing an orifice plate into engagement with an annular ledge in a carrier body, the carrier body having an aperture therethrough and having, on a first side, an annular rim and the annular ledge that extends radially inward from the annular rim, wherein the annular ledge and annular rim are disposed concentrically about the aperture; positioning a first annular elastomeric seal about an annular lip of a ring member; positioning the annular lip of the ring member within the annular rim of the carrier body; using the first annular seal, sealing between the ring member and the carrier body and between the ring member and the orifice plate; positioning a second annular elastomeric seal in an annular groove on a second side of the carrier body opposite the first side.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01961
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14824246', '11851583', '12033452', '09854997', '15240823']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7086846408141824
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4840189706743923
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6862180738002034
- Mean Citation Score: 202.456536
- Max Citation Score: 229.46388
- Similarity Product: 178.92548380630728

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

Dataset: test