PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895715
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["137", "015020"]

Abstract:
A valve for preventing water hammer includes a speed reduction device for reducing a speed at which the valve may be closed. A method of preventing water hammer includes closing a valve at a fire hydrant after extracting water from the fire hydrant, in which the valve comprising a speed reduction device that increases an amount of time needed for closing the valve, and operating the valve to close the valve comprises operating the speed reduction device.

Claim (Index 3):
The valve of  claim 2 , further comprising a set of threads at an opposite end of the channel sized for mating with a hose of a water truck.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97561
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14733853', '12685823', '14167804', '15824794', '11999281']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8293243204649869
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.497517895054882
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7961436779239764
- Mean Citation Score: 208.211672
- Max Citation Score: 328.15918
- Similarity Product: 326.137517018106

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