PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901305
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["137", "539000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for use in controlling a dispensing rate of medication or other substance via a syringe, including, without limitation, into a patient, intravenous line port or heparin lock. A fluid flow rate control apparatus has a housing defining an inner chamber with an inlet port and an outlet port. Sealing seats are formed at or near both the inlet and outlet ports, and a moveable sealing element, such as a ball, can move within the inner chamber between the sealing seats. A spring biases the ball toward the inlet port sealing seat.

Claim (Index 1):
A fluid flow control apparatus comprising:\n a) a housing defining an internal chamber having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet; b) a ball moveably disposed within said internal chamber, wherein said ball is at least as large as said fluid outlet; c) a compression spring disposed between said ball and said fluid outlet, wherein said compression spring biases said ball away from said fluid outlet when fluid flow rate in said internal chamber is less than a predetermined rate, but allows said ball to block said fluid outlet and interrupt flow through said fluid outlet when said fluid flow rate exceeds said predetermined rate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63077
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14754806', '11818232', '11465612', '10853893', '10854830']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8435256591149918
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4790881261984087
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8070819058233335
- Mean Citation Score: 215.62536
- Max Citation Score: 225.05891
- Similarity Product: 156.4343590261686

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