PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16130996
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["222", "230000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure is related to a refrigerator and a method of controlling the same. The refrigerator includes a dispenser passage, a water supplier for supplying sterilizing water or rinsing water to the dispenser passage, a drain for draining the sterilizing water or the rinsing water that is supplied to the dispenser passage, and a controller for performing a sterilization cycle and controlling the water supplier and the drain to perform a rinsing cycle after completing the sterilization cycle, wherein the sterilization cycle is a cycle of keeping the sterilizing water in the dispenser passage and then draining the sterilizing water, and the rinsing cycle is a cycle of supplying the rinsing water to the dispenser passage and draining the rinsing water therefrom.

Claim (Index 1):
A refrigerator comprising:\n a dispenser passage; a water supplier configured to supply sterilizing water or rinsing water to the dispenser passage; a drain configured to drain the sterilizing water or the rinsing water that is supplied to the dispenser passage; and at least one processor, wherein, when a dispenser cleaning signal is input, the at least one processor is configured to:\n control the water supplier to supply the sterilizing water to the dispenser passage, \n control the drain to drain the sterilizing water after the sterilizing water is kept in the dispenser passage during a predetermined time interval, and \n block a passage to an ice-making machine until the rinsing water is drained after the sterilizing water is supplied.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.07143
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15087731', '14875739', '14875742', '12167334', '15096651']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7249746741269344
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.657791818233624
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7182563885376033
- Mean Citation Score: 323.397534
- Max Citation Score: 652.3509
- Similarity Product: 617.9238034835638

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

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