PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863250
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["210", "776000"]

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus for automatically skimming swimming pools with a pool cover attachment. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a skimming element holder; a skimming element connected to the skimming element holder; a base member connected between the swimming pool cover and the skimming element, where pivot of the base member pivots the skimming element holder and the skimming element; and a skimming guide connected to the base member, where the swimming pool cover defines a swimming pool plane; the base member automatically actuates the skimming element through the swimming pool plane, and immediately before ending the traversal along the swimming pool plane, the base member again automatically actuates through the swimming pool plane opposite to the previous direction of automatic pivot of the base member.

Claim (Index 13):
A pool skimming apparatus for cleaning the surface of a swimming pool having a leading edge, comprising:\n an elongated track oriented parallel to a major axis of a swimming pool cover; an extendable swimming pool cover deployable from a front end of the swimming pool along the major axis to an opposite, rear end of the swimming pool; a first elongated rod operationally connected to the elongated track and operationally connected to a front edge of a swimming pool cover; a second elongated rod connected to the first elongated rod, wherein the second elongated rod is oriented perpendicularly to the first elongated rod and wherein the first and second elongated rods define a bracket; a cam follower operationally connected to the elongated bracket; and a net operationally connected to the elongated bracket; wherein the surface defines a swimming pool plane; wherein moving the leading edge from a first position to a second position over the pool automatically pivots the bracket and net into an orientation perpendicular to the swimming pool plane to engage the surface with the net; wherein as the leading edge reaches the opposite end, the bracket and net automatically pivot into an orientation parallel to the swimming pool plane to disengage the net from the surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.85714
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12140487', '11196655', '12250664', '10958804', '11542503']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7420045119528496
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.479490218816599
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7157530826392245
- Mean Citation Score: 168.515964
- Max Citation Score: 181.14815
- Similarity Product: 134.80882125270068

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

Dataset: test