PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16275823
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["405", "025000"]

Abstract:
A system and method to provide water and sediment flow through a dam or rock jetty, including a plurality of flow pipes positioned through the dam or jetty to receive water carrying sediment and a principal flow pipe to receive flow from the plurality of flow pipes and to deposit water and sediment a predetermined distance to the rear of the dam or jetty. A continuous trough may be mounted on the jetty forward face to efficiently capture water and sediment at entrances of the plurality of flow pipes. A system and method is also provided to suppress wave action against a shoreline and to collect sediment to build up the shoreline, comprising shelves extending out from a front wall of each body section, below a plurality of flow pipes, the shelves for shearing a wave and dispersing and using wave energy to direct sediment through the flow pipes.

Claim (Index 17):
A method to provide water and sediment flow through a dam or barrier, comprising the following steps:\n a) positioning a flow pipe through a body of the dam or barrier to receive water carrying sediment and flow to a rear of the dam or barrier, wherein the flow pipe has an entrance proximate to a forward wall of the dam or barrier, and wherein the flow pipe extends at least between the forward wall and a back wall of the dam or barrier; b) positioning a trough at or near the entrance of the flow pipe so that the trough extends out from the forward wall and is operable to capture the water carrying sediment at the entrance and to facilitate flow of the water carrying sediment through the flow pipe, wherein the trough is positioned to shear a wave and to disperse wave energy contacting the forward wall, while redirecting and using the wave energy to direct the water carrying sediment and flow into the flow pipe and for collecting sediment that is not carried into the flow pipe and settles on the trough for being contacted by a following wave to flow water carrying sediment into the flow pipe; and c) flowing the water and sediment from the flow pipe to the rear of the dam or barrier.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19718
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15851553', '13554202', '15231680', '14192519', '15676429']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8189181768851673
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6398896548540252
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8010153246820532
- Mean Citation Score: 554.335112
- Max Citation Score: 614.9026
- Similarity Product: 568.4171923350813

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

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