PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982377
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "634000"]

Abstract:
An optical liquid height determination system of the present embodiments includes light sensors capturing different amounts of light, based on level of liquid in the tank that blocks or limits light to particular sensors. The tank is enclosed in a container with a light source and the light sensors are installed on walls of the container. Light emitted by the light source is transmitted to the light sensors by passing through the liquid product, scattered, diffused, diffracted or reflected by the dairy product, through the tank walls which may be transparent or translucent, or from other surfaces in the container within which the tank is enclosed by. The set of electrical signals received from all the light sensors are compared against sets of calibrated signals corresponding to known liquid levels in the tank. The known height corresponding to the nearest set of calibrated signals is determined as the measured liquid height in the tank.

Claim (Index 14):
A liquid height measuring system, comprising:\n a tank with light permeable side walls and a light permeable lid for storing a specific liquid, and having a port for dispensing the specific liquid; a container to enclose the tank; a light source attached to a ceiling of the container for emitting light towards the tank; at least two light sensors positioned on a side wall of the container along a vertical direction and proximate to the side wall, each of the at least two light sensors sensing an intensity of light and each generating a corresponding electrical signal value to form a set of measured electrical signal values; a memory storing sets of calibrated signal values and corresponding known levels of the liquid height, where each set of calibrated signal values includes a calibrated signal value for each of the at least two light sensors, corresponding to one of the known levels of the liquid height; and a processing system for receiving the set of measured electrical signal values and configured to execute mathematical calculations for determining one set of calibrated signal values nearest to the set of measured electrical signal values, the processing system being further configured to output a discrete level of the liquid height corresponding to the one set of calibrated signal values.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15489066', '15226968', '14547828', '12094821', '14397130']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6837561748520878
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4713453695240992
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6625150943192889
- Mean Citation Score: 157.38065
- Max Citation Score: 161.166
- Similarity Product: 116.76017529308795

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

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