PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942555
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["435", "257100"]

Abstract:
A lateral circulator for generating agitation or circulation in a cultivation pond is disclosed. The circulator comprises at least a drive pulley and a secondary pulley, both oriented vertically and placed in the pond separated from one another along the length of the pond. The drive pulley is coupled to a motor, or to a drive train that is itself coupled to the motor. An endless belt is trained over the drive pulley and the secondary pulley. A plurality of cleats is provided along the exterior of the belt. The cleats are typically angled and serve to drive water as the belt rotates through the water. Typically, the belt would extend over much of the length of the cultivation pond, providing agitation and circulation over an extensive, continuous area of the cultivation pond.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the belt is driven using both a primary drive signal input to a motor coupled to the belt and a secondary, dithering drive signal input to the motor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13235
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15354925', '11446023', '13098338', '12485862', '12631567']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5741429887573384
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5206760116526495
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5687962910468696
- Mean Citation Score: 164.22580680000004
- Max Citation Score: 291.31964
- Similarity Product: 168.98771644678354

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