PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16047437
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["210", "323200"]

Abstract:
A regenerative filter that includes a filter housing having inlet and outlet zones; a fluid path provided between the inlet and outlet zones; a plurality of filter elements each having an outer surface filter media applied thereto and functioning to filter particulate or contaminants from the fluid path; and a tube sheet that is supported across the filter housing, that is disposed just before the outlet zone and that provides the support for the plurality of filter elements. The plurality of filter elements are disposed in an array and includes bridging members or elements that connect between adjacent filter elements, and that forms with the filter elements, a closed interstitial space between adjacent filter elements for liquid flow; a nanoscale barrier on interior surfaces, including that of the regenerative media itself, providing a mechanism to disrupt the cell wall of microscopic viruses and organisms.

Claim (Index 9):
A regenerative filter comprising:\n a filter housing having inlet and outlet zones; a fluid path provided between the inlet and outlet zones; a plurality of filter elements each having an outer surface filter media applied thereto and functioning to filter particulate or contaminants from the fluid path; each of said filter elements being elongated and having a longitudinal axis that extends in a direction between the inlet and outlet zones; a tube sheet that is supported across the filter housing, that is disposed just before the outlet zone and that provides a support for the plurality of filter elements; said plurality of filter elements being disposed in an array and including bridging elements that couple between adjacent filter elements, and that forms with the filter elements, a closed interstitial space between adjacent filter elements; said bridging elements are each comprised of an elongated bridge wall that connects between adjacent filter elements and that extends a predetermined length of and substantially in parallel with the longitudinal axis of each filter element; said elongated bridge wall each extending perpendicular to a tangent line of the an adjacent filter element; and wherein each of the elongated bridge walls extends substantially the entire length of each filter element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98718
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15050985', '14535655', '14830994', '15088453', '14830956']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7874564372444679
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.480535578448721
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7567643513648932
- Mean Citation Score: 205.556246
- Max Citation Score: 213.91429
- Similarity Product: 161.654619271034

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

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