PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965602
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["251", "314000"]

Abstract:
A system, in certain embodiments, includes an annular ball valve seat including an annular spring, which biases the annular ball valve seat axially. More specifically, in certain embodiments, the annular ball valve seat includes a main body section, a lip section extending from the main body section, and a seat groove between the main body section and the lip section, wherein the first annular spring is disposed within the seat groove. A first leg of the annular spring biases the lip section in a first axial direction and a second leg of the annular spring biases the main body section in a second axial direction opposite the first axial direction. The annular ball valve seat is configured to be disposed within a ball valve, on either side of a ball of the ball valve. The particular design of the annular ball valve seat enables pressure within a body cavity of the ball valve to be self-relieving.

Claim (Index 16):
The system of  claim 12 , wherein the annular spring is a u-shaped spring.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09091
- Patent Class: 251.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12632340', '12983806', '15584007', '10708293', '11974536']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7643230990769629
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.537109720250919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7416017611943586
- Mean Citation Score: 270.911896
- Max Citation Score: 419.8384400000001
- Similarity Product: 394.4224632715345

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

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