PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16112270
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["285", "368000"]

Abstract:
A self-centering valve adapter connection assembly includes a first equipment flange that is connected to a second equipment flange with an adapter ring. The adapter ring includes a first longitudinal flange with a tapered inner surface and a cylindrical outer surface. The adapter ring aids in centering the first and second equipment flanges while smoothing a fluid flow corridor between the first equipment flange and the second equipment flange.

Claim (Index 15):
The valve adapter connection assembly of  claim 13 , wherein the inner tapered surface of the second longitudinal flange is tapered in the range of 5\u00b0 to 45\u00b0.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84615
- Patent Class: 285.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14919342', '15099918', '10617099', '13025021', '11950305']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7875526855195754
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.3982371790929087
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7486211348769087
- Mean Citation Score: 173.80912800000004
- Max Citation Score: 282.6027
- Similarity Product: 234.4410619162201

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

Dataset: test