PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16258782
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["047", "048500"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method to regulate the fluid level in a plant watering device is described. In an embodiment, the plant watering device comprises a fluid reservoir that is supported by an adapter/fluid regulator that sits within a hollow permeable plant stake. The plant stake is designed to be pressed into soil adjacent to a plant growing in the soil. The adapter sits within the plant stake and acts as a valve with multiple settings that control the depth of water in the plant stake. Exposing the permeable plant stake to various levels of water affects the rate of permeation through the stake and thereby regulates the watering rate for the plant.

Claim (Index 2):
A method of adjusting a fluid level in a plant watering device comprising:\n providing a plant watering device that includes a fluid reservoir configured to feed a fluid into fluid level adjuster apparatus that in turn is concentrically placed in a fluid dispenser; the fluid level adjuster apparatus comprising:\n a hollow, substantially cylindrical valve body configured with:\n one or more perforations in the valve body wall, the perforations falling along a helical path, \n a fluid reservoir connector affixed on a top end, \n a flange, also affixed to the top end configured to support the valve body within a fluid dispenser, and; \n \n an outer sleeve concentric with the valve body and configured with the same amount of perforations as the valve body, the perforations spaced in line longitudinally at the same longitudinal spacing as the perforations in the valve body whereby the sleeve is moveable by rotation about the valve body such that one set of perforations (one in the sleeve and one in the valve body at the same longitudinal position) line up for a single rotated position; and \n one or more compressible gaskets that is fixedly attached to the valve body surrounding each perforation in the valve body and in elastic watertight contact with the sleeve; and \n wherein the fluid reservoir is filled with fluid; the fluid reservoir is attached to the fluid level adjuster apparatus; the combined fluid reservoir and fluid level adjuster mechanism are seated in a fluid dispenser; the outer sleeve is rotated until a perforation in the valve body lines up with a perforation in the sleeve at the desired height; and the total apparatus is pressed into soil adjacent to a plant that needs watering.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90323
- Patent Class: 47.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14198343', '14046153', '12536105', '11405720', '15943222']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7039492762628043
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4653283349797582
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6800871821344998
- Mean Citation Score: 177.76866
- Max Citation Score: 184.49463
- Similarity Product: 144.2638818679869

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

Dataset: test