PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16333347
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["073", "863030"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments include methods and systems to dilute a sampled particle-laden aerosol stream. In one embodiment, a system to dilute a sampled aerosol stream includes an aerosol sample inlet. A filter is coupled in fluid communication with and in parallel with a flow-monitoring device to receive the sampled aerosol stream from the aerosol sample inlet. The flow-monitoring device is configured to allow for a passage of particles contained in the sampled aerosol stream. A pressure sensor and a temperature sensor monitor the filter and the flow-monitoring device. An output from the filter and the flow-monitoring device may be directed to particle measurement or particle sizing instrumentation. An actual dilution ratio of the output sent to the particle measurement or particle sizing instrumentation is determined based on a nominal flowrate of the flow-monitoring device and thermodynamic properties of a gas comprising the aerosol stream. Other methods and apparatuses are disclosed.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of diluting a sampled aerosol stream, the method comprising:\n receiving a sample of an aerosol stream; diverting a first portion of the aerosol stream to a flow-monitoring device; monitoring a temperature and a pressure of the flow-monitoring device; diverting a remaining portion of the aerosol stream to a filter; filtering the remaining portion of the aerosol stream to produce a filtered airstream; and combining the first portion of the aerosol stream from an outlet of the flow-monitoring device with the filtered airstream.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07895
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11211376', '10279510', '11614464', '15490591', '13099295']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6119725280083823
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4724066475051384
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5980159399580579
- Mean Citation Score: 145.518222
- Max Citation Score: 171.22812
- Similarity Product: 134.5588098528099

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

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