PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16013892
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["052", "001000"]

Abstract:
The gutter consists of a gutter base, gutter flap, and pneumatic actuator. The actuator is controlled by a gutter controller which senses rain and controls the actuator. In rainy weather, a rain sensor at the gutter controller senses rain and pumps air into the actuator to raise the gutter flap to form a V-shaped gutter. In dry weather, when most of the debris is collected in the traditional gutter, the air is drained from the actuator and the gutter flap lies flat, letting the debris slide down to the ground.

Claim (Index 1):
Self-cleaning gutter system comprising:\n a gutter base having an upper surface and a lower surface, the upper surface sloping downward away from a roof of a house when the gutter base is mounted to a side of the house; a gutter flap coupled to the upper surface of the gutter base by a hinge, the gutter flap being rotatable about the hinge between a first position wherein the gutter flap slopes upward away from the roof of the house to form substantially a v-shaped channel with respect to the upper surface of the gutter base and a second position wherein the gutter flap slopes downward away from the roof of the house to become substantially planar with the upper surface of the gutter base; an inflatable pneumatic gutter flap actuator disposed between the gutter flap and the lower surface of the gutter base; and a gutter controller configured to inflate and deflate the inflatable pneumatic gutter flap actuator and thereby cause the gutter flap to move between the first and second positions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08333
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11847331', '13439257', '15675062', '14496799', '11852966']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7794269290502325
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5073965728724824
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7522238934324575
- Mean Citation Score: 215.229254
- Max Citation Score: 247.6782
- Similarity Product: 164.9274351187706

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

Dataset: test