PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16100992
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["118", "300000"]

Abstract:
A fluid application device includes an applicator head, a first fluid passageway extending in the applicator head, a second fluid passageway extending in the applicator head, a plurality of metering devices connected to the applicator head. A first metering device of the plurality of metering devices is configured to meter a fluid to the first fluid passageway and a second metering device of the plurality of metering devices is configured to meter the fluid to the second fluid passageway. The device further includes a plurality of valve modules, each valve module actuatable between an open condition and a closed condition to control flow of the fluid and a nozzle having one or more discharge orifices. At least one orifice of the one or more discharge orifices is positioned downstream from the first passageway and the second passageway to receive the material from both the first and second fluid passageways.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for varying a volume of material discharged from a nozzle orifice of a fluid application device, the method comprising:\n metering a first volume of material to the nozzle orifice via a first fluid passageway; metering a second volume of material to the nozzle orifice via a second fluid passageway; controlling flow of the second volume of material to the nozzle orifice with a valve module in the second fluid passageway, wherein controlling flow of the second volume of material comprises:\n opening the valve module to provide the second material to the nozzle orifice; and \n closing the valve module to prevent flow of the second material to the nozzle orifice.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75439
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14525774', '14539517', '15647837', '14525498', '14525534']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8197587851960138
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4975598577684636
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7875388924532588
- Mean Citation Score: 252.673162
- Max Citation Score: 262.97583
- Similarity Product: 197.22430167741

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

Dataset: test