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 1):
An apparatus for adjusting a water level in a plant watering device comprising:\n a hollow, substantially cylindrical valve body configured with:\n one or more perforations in a wall of the valve body at intervals longitudinally, the perforations falling along a helical path, \n a fluid reservoir connector affixed on a top end, \n a flange configured to support the valve body within a fluid dispenser, also affixed to the top end, and; \n an outer sleeve positioned 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 in the same longitudinal position) line up at a specific angle of rotation; and one or more compressible gaskets that is fixedly attached to the sleeve and which surround each perforation in the sleeve and is in elastic watertight contact with the valve body.

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): 0.7044968396564123
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4627849001577967
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6803256457065507
- Mean Citation Score: 177.76866
- Max Citation Score: 184.49463
- Similarity Product: 147.503410586679

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

Dataset: test