PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937696
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["065", "029150"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for controlling the flow of vitrified material. In at least some embodiments, a vitrified material control system comprises a melt chamber ( 8 ) configured to contain a molten material ( 27 ) during operation of the control system; a siphon valve ( 11 ) configured to facilitate a flow of the molten material from the melt chamber; and a vacuum-generation system ( 26, 15, 16 ) configured to controllably deliver a vacuum to the molten material in the melt chamber and to thereby regulate a flow of the molten material from the melt chamber. In other embodiments, methods of controlling a flow of molten vitrified material from a heating device are disclosed. The methods may include, for example, applying a vacuum to the molten material to control a dwell time of the molten material in a vessel of the heating device and regulating the vacuum based on a measured temperature of the molten material.

Claim (Index 23):
The method of  claim 22 , wherein the heating device further comprises a melt pool configured to deliver the hot vitrified material from the heating device, and wherein the vacuum intermittently applied to the upper surface of the hot vitrified material is sufficient to pull the hot vitrified material from melt pool and back into the melt chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53731
- Patent Class: 65.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15003737', '10252902', '13815503', '11862735', '13628267']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7432194680373797
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5432818829998535
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7232257095336271
- Mean Citation Score: 184.347422
- Max Citation Score: 349.93103
- Similarity Product: 273.0201749931723

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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