PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041538
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["134", "11500R"]

Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure provide various apparatus and methods. In some embodiments, an apparatus is provided for mixing a gas with a liquid. The apparatus may include a pipe having two ends. The pipe may provide a main fluid path and may have an interior surface having a first groove. The apparatus may also include a helical vane disposed inside the pipe. The vane may have a first projecting tongue that engages the first groove. The apparatus may also include a gas injection port on the pipe adapted to inject gas into the fluid path upstream of the helical vane. In some embodiments, the helical vane may be a 3D printed component.

Claim (Index 4):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein each of the first helical vane and second helical vane has a length, a beginning, an end, and an increasing helical pitch along the length, and the helical pitch at the beginning of the second helical vane is greater than the helical pitch at the beginning of the first helical vane.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05
- Patent Class: 134.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14573300', '15101194', '11626057', '11862170', '13660391']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8027505873792481
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5256572658134129
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7750412552226645
- Mean Citation Score: 174.450292
- Max Citation Score: 310.9277600000001
- Similarity Product: 220.72875402249807

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

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