PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16182334
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["111", "170000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for minimizing the volume of a liquid carrier used for delivering an agricultural product into a furrow during planting. In one embodiment, a spray nozzle is mounted on a planter row unit so as to dispense a carrier containing an agricultural product along a dispensing pattern in alignment with the pattern width of the spray nozzle, in the direction of the furrow. In one embodiment a seed cover assembly is operatively connected to a seed tube assembly. A seed cover application tube is mounted to the seed cover assembly. A seed cover brush is mounted to the outlet end of the seed cover application tube configured to contact the carrier containing the product during the dispensing thereof and brush the carrier containing the agricultural product onto the seed being dispensed from the seed tube assembly. In another embodiment, a seed firmer application tube assembly is utilized.

Claim (Index 5):
The apparatus of  claim 1  further comprising additional seed firmer application tubes and associated seed firmer brushes mounted thereon, wherein each seed firmer application tube provides a different agricultural product, the agricultural products being incompatible, a first agricultural product being a biological and a second agricultural product being a chemical.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37313
- Patent Class: 111.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15190652', '16107374', '16112660', '14521908', '15208605']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8033053812733063
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5142142983108465
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7743962729770604
- Mean Citation Score: 331.496764
- Max Citation Score: 441.56436
- Similarity Product: 272.9006582196307

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

Dataset: test