PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16136640
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["004", "658000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed are splash-proof covers and methods of use to prevent liquid within a pipe under the drain of a sink having a basin from splashing out of the sink. The covers include a central body portion having an undersurface from which plural spaced apart, suction cups project downward. The covers may include an anti-microbial and/or anti-fungal agent and are configured to be disposed in the sink with each of the suction cups releasably engaging respective portions of the basin surrounding the drain and with the central body portion being located directly over the drain and spaced slightly thereabove. The central body portion enables water from a faucet to flow under it into the drain while providing a barrier to prevent any liquid within a pipe under the drain from splashing back into the sink.

Claim (Index 23):
A method of preventing liquid within a pipe under a drain of a sink from splashing out of said sink, said sink including a drain and a basin surrounding said drain, said method comprising:\n providing a splash-proof cover comprising a central body portion having an undersurface, a plural suction cups projecting downward from said undersurface of said central body portion, wherein said splash-proof cover is configured to provide an anti-microbial and/or an anti-fungal effect; causing said suction cups to releasably engage respective portions of said basin surrounding said drain, whereupon said central body portion is located directly over said drain and spaced slightly thereabove to shield said drain from above but enabling water from a faucet to flow under said central body portion into said drain and with said central body portion providing a barrier to prevent any liquid within a piper under said drain from splashing back into said sink.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90411
- Patent Class: 4.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13840638', '15342543', '16023862', '11946741', '11502726']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7877023619286384
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4843611056664956
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7573682363024241
- Mean Citation Score: 167.22857
- Max Citation Score: 175.07951
- Similarity Product: 119.47571653086662

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

Dataset: test