PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16004742
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["604", "514000"]

Abstract:
A pump apparatus and method for extracting breast milk is disclosed. The pump includes a first interface component to stimulate a Milk Ejection Reflex (MER) and a second interface component to extract breast milk. Milk is extracted through an improved method that more closely replicates the suckling of an infant.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of extracting milk, the method comprising:\n providing a pumping head with an expandable and contractible first bladder and an expandable and contractible second bladder disposed within the pumping head; providing a hydraulic pump with a valve switch; connecting the hydraulic pump to the first bladder through the valve switch via a first tube; connecting the hydraulic pump to the second bladder through the valve switch via a second tube; inserting a nipple of a breast into the pumping head; turning the connected pumping head and hydraulic pump to an on position; initiating a stimulation phase by the hydraulic pump delivering fluid to the first bladder through a valve switch and a first tube; expanding and contracting the first bladder against and away from the breast for a pre-set period of time to initiate a milk ejection reflex; initiating a milk extraction phase by switching the valve switch and having the hydraulic pump deliver fluid to the second bladder through the valve switch and second tube and after the pre-set period of time; and collecting milk excreted from the nipple.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.375
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15403578', '12113563', '10866485', '15428459', '15808779']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.74638410872674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.537647732619238
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7255104711159899
- Mean Citation Score: 231.999526
- Max Citation Score: 386.55115
- Similarity Product: 311.48843128788474

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

Dataset: test