PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16105857
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["239", "525000"]

Abstract:
A marking paint applicator for a portable electronic locator that locates buried cables and pipes via electromagnetic emissions is disclosed. The marking paint application may include an elongated support structure and a trigger mechanism, along with a bracket assembly, a receptacle for holding paint, and an actuating mechanism for selectively controlling release of the paint in response to operator actuation of the trigger mechanism.

Claim (Index 1):
A marking paint applicator for use with a portable locator that includes an input for receiving a paint deployment signal, comprising:\n a support structure; a mounting assembly for removable coupling of the applicator to the portable locator; a trigger mechanism; a receptacle mounted to the support structure for holding an aerosol paint can and portioning a valve stem of the aerosol paint can for spraying paint onto the ground; an actuating mechanism for controlling the valve stem so as to cause the aerosol paint can to spray paint for deployment on the ground; and a sensor operatively coupled to the actuation mechanism to provide a signal to the input of the locator indicating deployment of paint upon actuation so as to indicate paint deployment on a display of the locator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.40816
- Patent Class: 239.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14798177', '13766706', '15623174', '10616861', '12207552']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7824569171607068
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4804955097480615
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7522607764194422
- Mean Citation Score: 186.1653752
- Max Citation Score: 265.99994
- Similarity Product: 251.99398758234145

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

Dataset: test