PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884692
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["406", "197000"]

Abstract:
Method for pneumatically conveying granular material from a supply thereof through a conduit to a plurality of receivers for temporary storage of the material prior to molding or extrusion thereof by drawing vacuum in the conduit using a vacuum pump and varying the vacuum pump speed in response to sensed vacuum level in the conduit proximate the pump.

Claim (Index 5):
A method for operating a vacuum driven pneumatic conveying system delivering granular material to receivers without central control of the system, comprising:\n a) pneumatically delivering granular material under vacuum to any receiver for which a signal indicates granular material level is below a predetermined threshold; b) sensing vacuum level in respective granular material delivery lines leading to the respective receivers; c) upon sensed vacuum level in a respective granular material delivery line falling below the level required for the respective receiver to load with granular material, overriding the level signal and blocking the delivery line for the respective receiver.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59459
- Patent Class: 406.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15392650', '14574561', '15066157', '15182934', '14593010']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7455017671107645
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.550784734209951
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7260300638206832
- Mean Citation Score: 402.67358
- Max Citation Score: 440.6486
- Similarity Product: 334.288869887054

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

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