PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876365
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["114", "06700A"]

Abstract:
A method for reducing marine growth on a vessel, includes providing an air lubrication system and covering at least a part of the hull with air bubbles. Also described is a vessel having an air lubricating system with releasable connection of the deflectors across the cavity, a closeable outlet valve in the air outlet duct, connection of a compressor to each cavity or pair of cavities and an air inlet opening in the top of the cavity.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for reducing marine growth on a vessel, comprising:\n providing an air lubrication system, the air lubrication system comprising an air cavity system having sidewalls ( 18 , 18 \u2032) and a top wall ( 19 ) defining a cavity ( 33 ) with an opening ( 20 ) situated in an interface plane ( 30 ) that is transverse to the sidewalls, substantially at a level of a hull of the vessel, or at a level of a substantially flat bottom, the opening having a front end ( 22 ) and a rear end ( 21 ) when seen in a length direction of the cavity, and a compressor being connected to the cavity, the compressor being connected to the cavity for supplying air into the cavity via an air outlet duct ( 14 ); and covering at least a part of the hull with air bubbles.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60784
- Patent Class: 114.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15123691', '15123702', '15123712', '14753095', '14379866']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7576646104341526
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5164069708064528
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7335388464713826
- Mean Citation Score: 240.0106
- Max Citation Score: 319.94366
- Similarity Product: 246.7286321585321

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

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