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 23):
A method, comprising:\n coupling an inlet of an assembly to a fluid source such that fluid can flow from the fluid source and into a reservoir defined by the assembly; disposing the assembly on a surface such that a portion of an upper cap of the assembly and a portion of a lower cap of the assembly contacts the surface and maintains a centerline of a through-hole of a valve seat of the assembly transverse relative to the horizontal; applying negative pressure to an outlet of the reservoir such that fluid is drawn through the through-hole of the valve seat and out of an outlet of the reservoir until a fluid level within the reservoir decreases such that a sealing member seals with the valve seat and the reservoir is fluidically isolated from the through-hole.

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): 0.77759776033561
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.474144063080923
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7472523906101414
- Mean Citation Score: 203.711728
- Max Citation Score: 210.61765
- Similarity Product: 160.92296929546598

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

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