PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15776607
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["137", "269000"]

Abstract:
An automatic valve actuator unit and method for use with an associated manual shutoff valve configured to permit or restrict the flow of fluid through an associated supply pipe. The unit comprises a housing, an attachment mechanism for securing the housing to at least one of the associated supply pipe or manual shutoff valve, and an actuator at least partially supported in the housing and having an output shaft extending from the housing. The output shaft includes a locating member supported at a distal end thereof for non-rotatingly engaging a surface of a valve handle of the associated manual shutoff valve adjacent a point of attachment of the handle to the associated manual shutoff valve, the locating member configured to center the output shaft over an axis of rotation of the handle of the associated manual shutoff valve.

Claim (Index 21):
The automatic valve actuator unit of  claim 20 , wherein the handle engaging member extends radially from the output shaft and is configured to engage the handle of the associated manual shutoff valve at a location spaced from the axis of rotation of the handle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32258
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11536707', '15042954', '11846559', '14850421', '10855074']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8452924548467655
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4787968876934447
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8086428981314334
- Mean Citation Score: 189.61144
- Max Citation Score: 204.2595
- Similarity Product: 138.80508947485686

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