PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16262755
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["340", "407200"]

Abstract:
A fluidic switch (or fluidic device) is provided. The fluidic switch includes: (i) a housing defining a cavity with a first opening and a second opening, the second opening being larger than the first opening, the cavity containing an elastic substance, (ii) a channel to transport a fluid from a source, across the first opening, to a drain, where the first opening opens into the channel, and (iii) an actuator to apply a force through the second opening to the elastic substance in the cavity when actuated, the force to displace a portion of the elastic substance into the channel to impede transport of the fluid through the channel.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 13 , further comprising ceasing to apply the force to the elastic substance by the actuator,\n wherein the portion of the elastic substance displaced into the channel retracts back into the cavity when the actuator ceases to apply the force.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28571
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15973252', '15683937', '15706578', '15640341', '15695272']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6790655379163698
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5165296446873098
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6628119485934638
- Mean Citation Score: 191.037086
- Max Citation Score: 314.3112799999999
- Similarity Product: 303.9298115616177

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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