PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866581
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["417", "477200"]

Abstract:
A peristaltic pump is disclosed that includes a plunger, a spring, an actuator, a position sensor, and a processor. The plunger actuates toward and away from a tube. The spring biases the plunger toward the tube. The actuator actuates the plunger away from the tube and mechanically engages and disengages from the plunger. The position sensor senses a position of the plunger. The processor receives the sensed position of the plunger and estimates fluid flow within the tube using a first position of the plunger when the actuator is engaged with the plunger and a second position of the plunger when the actuator is disengaged from the plunger.

Claim (Index 1):
A peristaltic pump, comprising:\n a plunger configured to actuate toward and away from a tube; a spring configured to bias the plunger toward the tube; an actuator configured to actuate the plunger away from the tube, wherein the actuator is further configured to mechanically engage and disengage from the plunger; a position sensor configured to sense a position of the plunger; and a processor in operative communication with the position sensor to receive the sensed position of the plunger, wherein the processor is configured to estimate fluid flow within the tube using a first position of the plunger when the actuator is engaged with the plunger and a second position of the plunger when the actuator is disengaged from the plunger.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68182
- Patent Class: 417.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14873515', '13725790', '15808099', '15841961', '13840339']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8277309677934072
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6286349541674622
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8078213664308126
- Mean Citation Score: 551.2682980000002
- Max Citation Score: 580.082
- Similarity Product: 554.8299660435914

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