PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16130996
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["222", "230000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure is related to a refrigerator and a method of controlling the same. The refrigerator includes a dispenser passage, a water supplier for supplying sterilizing water or rinsing water to the dispenser passage, a drain for draining the sterilizing water or the rinsing water that is supplied to the dispenser passage, and a controller for performing a sterilization cycle and controlling the water supplier and the drain to perform a rinsing cycle after completing the sterilization cycle, wherein the sterilization cycle is a cycle of keeping the sterilizing water in the dispenser passage and then draining the sterilizing water, and the rinsing cycle is a cycle of supplying the rinsing water to the dispenser passage and draining the rinsing water therefrom.

Claim (Index 3):
The refrigerator of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a flow rate detector configured to detect a flow rate of the sterilizing water being supplied, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:\n control the water supplier to supply the sterilizing water during a predetermined time interval, and \n stop the supplying of the sterilizing water when the flow rate detected by the flow rate detector is equal to or greater than a predetermined flow rate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.07143
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15087731', '14875739', '14875742', '12167334', '15096651']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7226001474387385
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6649876236537704
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7168388950602417
- Mean Citation Score: 323.397534
- Max Citation Score: 652.3509
- Similarity Product: 641.9757496594369

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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