PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956028
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["062", "459000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an ice formation device that can be used to form and store ice and ice cubes. The ice formation device includes an outer bucket, a cylinder, and a lid. The cylinder is sized to snugly fit within the outer bucket to form a water tight seal with the outer bucket. The outer bucket has channels and pockets that are filled with water when the cylinder is inserted into the outer bucket, and the water is frozen to form ice/ice cubes. The cylinder can be re-inserted into the outer bucket after ice is formed and stored in the outer bucket, to allow for subsequent ice formation when the outer bucket contains ice cubes that have been released from the outer bucket's channels and pockets. The ice formation device can also be used as an ice bucket for chilling a bottle or other items that can be placed inside the cylinder once ice has been formed between the cylinder and the outer bucket.

Claim (Index 14):
The ice formation and storage device of  claim 1 , wherein the outer bucket has a cylindrical configuration including:\n a flat bottom portion having an interior, circular groove configured to receive a bottom edge of the cylinder to form a water-tight seal between the groove and bottom edge of the cylinder; an upper, cylindrical portion having alternating flat, curved panels; channels, and pockets; wherein the flat, curved panels form an interior cylindrical wall configured to fit against an exterior wall of the cylinder to form a water-tight seal between the flat, curved panels and the exterior wall of the cylinder; wherein the channels and pockets protrude exterior relative to the interior wall of the cylinder, to form openings that seal against the exterior wall of the cylinder to form water-holding compartments; wherein the channels and pockets alternate such that each pocket of the outer bucket is connected to another pocket via three or more channels, whereby each channel connects between two pockets; wherein each of the pockets has a greater volume than each of the channels; wherein each flat, curved panel is surrounded by alternating channels and pockets; wherein the top of the outer bucket cylindrical configuration has an upper, open channel configured to receive water that is poured into the upper, open channel when the cylinder is fully inserted into the outer bucket; and wherein each of the upper most pockets of the outer bucket is connected to the upper, open channel by a single upper most channel that vertically connects from the pocket to the upper, open channel and forms an opening to the upper, open channel through which water can flow from the upper, open channel into the water-tight channels and pockets formed between the outer bucket and the fully inserted cylinder.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52857
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13932538', '12949943', '13782034', '10661044', '11977695']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8329764842221624
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4720366322797036
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7968824990279165
- Mean Citation Score: 169.20988
- Max Citation Score: 174.01082
- Similarity Product: 132.8838501866913

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

Dataset: test