PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15985161
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["004", "668000"]

Abstract:
A fluid delivery apparatus includes a spout, an active sensor, and a passive sensor. The active sensor is configured to detect the presence of a user adjacent the spout when enabled. The passive sensor is configured to define a sensing field in an area near the spout and also to detect a presence of a user. A controller is coupled to the passive sensor and the active sensor. The controller is programmed to detect the presence of a user in the sensing field based on an output signal from the active sensor in response to detecting the presence of the user in the sensing field with the passive sensor, thereby reducing the amount of power used by the active sensor.

Claim (Index 13):
A fluid delivery apparatus comprising:\n a water outlet; a normally disabled first sensor configured to detect the presence of a user adjacent the water outlet when enabled; a second sensor configured to define a sensing field in an area near the water outlet to detect the presence of a user; a controller coupled to the first sensor and the second sensor, the controller being configured to detect the presence of a user in the sensing field based on an output signal from the second sensor, the controller also being configured to enable the first sensor in response to detecting the presence of the user in the sensing field with the second sensor; and an electrically operable valve coupled to the controller and configured to control water flow to the water outlet, the electrically operable valve being open when the controller enables the first sensor and the controller detects the presence of the user adjacent the water outlet with the enabled first sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56
- Patent Class: 4.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14776559', '12525324', '13495525', '14330991', '13642462']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8097477779117234
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.51020884952761
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.779793885073312
- Mean Citation Score: 233.58127
- Max Citation Score: 303.7371
- Similarity Product: 261.46657175005674

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

Dataset: test