PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938938
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["004", "668000"]

Abstract:
A water conservation apparatus that conserves water by diverting water of an undesired temperature away from the faucet and back to the hot water source for additional heating by way of a nested water pipe design.

Claim (Index 1):
A water conservation system comprising: a nested pipe assembly comprising an outer pipe and an inner pipe secured within the outer pipe; a base assembly secured to one end of the nested pipe assembly and comprising an attachment means to secure the nested pipe assembly to a hot water source; a diversion chamber secured to the other end of the nested pipe assembly and comprising an inlet port to permit entry of water from the inner pipe into the diversion chamber, an outlet port with attachment means to permit flow of water from the diversion chamber to a faucet; a directing means secured to the diversion chamber and configured to direct water entering the diversion chamber from the inner pipe to either the outer pipe for return to the hot water source or to the outlet port of the nested pipe assembly depending on the temperature of said water, with said directing means comprising a valve, a temperature sensor, and an actuator means for opening and closing the valve; and a control means in electronic communication with the temperature sensor and actuator means of the directing means with said control means comprising a power source, a user operated temperature setting function and an input and display panel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.23333
- Patent Class: 4.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12426635', '15494534', '12220343', '12317220', '10832492']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7824918148722385
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4682400062983318
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7510666340148479
- Mean Citation Score: 172.495458
- Max Citation Score: 176.55136000000005
- Similarity Product: 140.24042078182225

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

Dataset: test