PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866860
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["702", "136000"]

Abstract:
A method of measuring the amount of energy consumed from a water heater having a tank with two or more temperature sensors located a predetermined heights on or in the tank, the method including the step of; for each sensor, determining a corresponding volume of a segment of the tank, measuring the change of temperature at each temperature sensor, calculating the energy for the corresponding volume for each sensor, and summing the energy changes for all the sensors to determine the amount of energy consumed. The energy usage can be recorded with chronological information to construct a usage pattern which can be used for controlling the heater and for providing the user with details of energy usage. The system does not require the use of data derived from a flow meter.

Claim (Index 32):
A water heating system including:\n a water storage tank; a means of heating water in or delivered to the tank; two or more temperature sensors measuring water temperature at predetermined locations within the tank; an electronic controller in communication with the temperature sensors and configured to measure thermal energy stored in the tank and to calculate the amount of thermal energy transferred into and out of the tank, wherein the calculation can be performed without the use of data derived from a flow meter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14117437', '14976602', '12816387', '13368462', '12371572']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2157895446978331
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5080455830989596
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2450151485379457
- Mean Citation Score: 204.609584
- Max Citation Score: 303.6017
- Similarity Product: 252.95557328557967

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