PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16459016
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["604", "045000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, a housing can define a reservoir. A lower cap can be coupled to the housing and define an outlet, and an upper cap can be coupled to the housing and can define an inlet. The upper cap can include an extending portion extending laterally a distance beyond an outermost extending portion of the lower cap relative to a central axis of the housing such that, when the lower cap and the extending portion of the upper cap contact a horizontal surface, the central axis of the housing is transverse to the surface and a sealing member is configured to sealingly engage a sealing surface of a valve seat prior to a liquid fluid level within a reservoir decreasing below a minimum threshold fluid level.

Claim (Index 19):
A method, comprising:\n applying a negative pressure to a reservoir via a negative pressure source such that fluid is drawn from the reservoir through a through-hole of a valve seat until the fluid level decreases such that a sealing member seals with the valve seat fluidically isolating the reservoir from the through-hole, the negative pressure source fluidically coupled to the through-hole and to a patient's vasculature; coupling an inlet of the reservoir to a fluid source such that fluid flows from the fluid source into the reservoir, the sealing member remaining sealed with the valve seat as the fluid level increases due to the negative pressure; and deforming a wall of a housing defining the reservoir such that the wall of the housing deforms the valve seat, releasing the sealing member from the valve seat such that the sealing member can float to the fluid level.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31034
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13050707', '15080416', '12148321', '14164835', '15354635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.777883087308508
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4724721466937935
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7473419932470365
- Mean Citation Score: 203.711728
- Max Citation Score: 210.61765
- Similarity Product: 163.741144552505

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