PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019748
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["340", "608000"]

Abstract:
A standing water alert system comprises two conductive wires or a float extending into a drain and connected to an audible or visual alarm that is triggered when standing water is present. A drain alert system and method comprises a plurality of sensors, such as pressure or acoustic/vibration sensors, at various locations within a plumbing or fluid filtration system to measure pressure or an acoustic profile at that location and a control system to compare the measured parameters to a threshold value or range and/or to other measured parameters from nearby sensor locations. A signal is sent to a remote user or computer or an alarm is triggered when the comparison shows a potential blockage, a leak, or indicating that a filter needs to be replaced or cleaned. An approximate location of the blockage, leak, or fouled filter is determined by comparing measured parameters at nearby sensor locations.

Claim (Index 1):
A drain alert system for detecting changes in a plumbing system indicating a blockage within the plumbing system, the drain alert system comprising:\n two or more sensors, each sensor connected to a vent stack, drain pipe, or cleanout in the plumbing system to measure a parameter within the plumbing system at a location of the sensor; a control system configured to receive signals from the sensors, compare the measured parameter from each sensor to a threshold value or range of values, and send a signal to a remote user or remote device or trigger an alarm when at least one of the measured values is above or below the threshold value or outside the range of values; and wherein (1) the sensors are pressure sensors and the parameter is a pressure, or (2) the sensors are acoustic or vibration sensors and the parameter is an acoustic profile, or (3) a combination thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90361
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15081868', '14097227', '10855684', '15818562', '15633554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6592414815667378
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4692825161503708
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6402455850251011
- Mean Citation Score: 150.84371600000003
- Max Citation Score: 156.35254
- Similarity Product: 122.61531703149676

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

Dataset: test