PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16014140
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["440", "072000"]

Abstract:
A watercraft propulsion device for protecting marine life includes a tube that is coupled to a hull of a marine vessel. The tube has a front end and a back end that are open. The front end is circumferentially larger than the back end so that the tube is tapered. An impeller assembly is positioned in the tube. The impeller assembly is operationally coupled to a drive shaft of the marine vessel. A power plant of the marine vessel is positioned to rotate the impeller assembly concurrently with the drive shaft to increase a pressure and a flow of water through the tube to generate thrust to propel the marine vessel. A grate is coupled to a front perimeter of the tube so that the grate covers the front end. The grate is configured to deter entry of a marine organism into the tube.

Claim (Index 14):
The device of  claim 13 , further including a plurality of protrusions coupled to and extending from the curved edge of the plate wherein the protrusions are positioned for separating the curved edge from the tube with the plate in the closed configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45161
- Patent Class: 440.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14183976', '11563714', '11090602', '10776566', '15911656']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5971970369522892
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.472751619900645
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5847524952471248
- Mean Citation Score: 134.86918
- Max Citation Score: 140.24538
- Similarity Product: 91.11132750765324

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

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