PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972142
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["047", "06200A"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides an aeroponic plant growing system with improvement in efficiency, performance, and ease of maintenance. In an embodiment of the present invention, the aeroponic system comprises multiple aeroponic units and water cycle components, LED lights, sensors, and control components to support and operate the aeroponic units. Each aeroponic unit comprises a drainage tank to catch water, manifolds and spray nozzles to irrigate the plant clones, and one or more rooting trays. The rooting tray comprises rooting tubes extended from the apertures in which the plant clones are inserted. The rooting tubes are shaped and arranged in a manner such that a rooting tube shares its walls with its neighboring rooting tubes. In one embodiment, the cross section of a rooting tube is shaped as a hexagon with equal sides and multiple rooting tubes are arranged into a honeycomb structure. In certain embodiments, the aeroponic plant growing system further comprises stem collar trays removably fitting on top of the rooting trays. The stem collar trays have openings in which stem collars can be inserted into.

Claim (Index 1):
An aeroponic plant growing system, comprising:\n a reservoir for storing liquid; a pump configured to pump liquid from the reservoir; at least one power source; at least one pipe connected to the pump to distribute liquid; at least one manifold having one or more output openings, the at least one manifold configured to receive liquid distributed by the at least one pipe; one or more spray nozzles, each spray nozzle connected to an output opening of the at least one manifold; at least one tank for catching and holding liquid from the one or more spray nozzles; at least one pipe connected to the tank to recycle liquid back to the reservoir; at least one rooting tray, each rooting tray comprising\n an essentially flat structure, \n a plurality of openings in the essentially flat structure, \n a plurality of rooting tubes connected to the underside of the essentially flat structure, each rooting tube connected to one of the openings in the essentially flat structure, and the plurality of rooting tubes arranged so that each rooting tube shares its wall with at least one neighboring rooting tube.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07447
- Patent Class: 47.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12394305', '14090869', '14021149', '15809420', '15376080']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7208707715722134
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4941500809386799
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6981987025088601
- Mean Citation Score: 239.590598
- Max Citation Score: 269.19586
- Similarity Product: 206.06861495738505

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

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