PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944346
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["118", "418000"]

Abstract:
A seed treater provides enhanced seed coating capabilities and performance. The seed and/or treatment fluid may be heated for improving vaporization and absorption by the seed. Air may be injected in the seed treater to provide heat, dehumidified air, and to provide vaporization enhancement, and component cleaning functions. The functions may be controlled by a control processor based on recipes and may be changed dependent upon sensed or input environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity.

Claim (Index 9):
A seed treatment apparatus comprising:\n a seed treatment containment housing having an open interior for the treatment of seed with a treatment liquid, the containment housing having a seed inlet port, a seed outlet port, and an air inlet port defined by a top cover of the containment housing; a seed dispersion portion for distributing the seed in the open housing into an annular seed treatment region; a liquid dispersion portion supported and positioned in the open interior of the housing, the liquid dispersion portion comprising a rotating tray; a duct connected to the air inlet port defined by the top cover of the containment housing; an air conditioner that provides heated air to the duct connected to the air input port defined by the top cover of the containment housing, the air input port being located so that the duct directs the heated air directly at the rotating tray of the liquid dispersion portion; a seed treatment liquid input line extending through the air inlet port into the containment housing, the seed treatment liquid input line being connected to the liquid dispersion portion at a location such that the rotating tray of the liquid dispersion portion generates a radially outward and annular spray of the treatment liquid into the seed treatment region; wherein the seed treatment liquid input line extends through a portion of the duct so that the seed treatment liquid input line is contacted by the heated air before the seed treatment liquid input line extends through the air inlet port defined by the top cover of the containment housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.50909
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15210288', '13314146', '14965593', '15431118', '14309563']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.804637557048836
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5482003526178282
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7789938366057352
- Mean Citation Score: 243.74897600000003
- Max Citation Score: 407.6948
- Similarity Product: 387.8382751894952

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

Dataset: test