PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16172042
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["165", "171000"]

Abstract:
An evaporator includes a refrigerant conduit; and front and rear plates sandwiching the refrigerant conduit, each of the front and rear plates including: a plurality of ice forming columns; a set of first protrusions and a set of second protrusions defined therein, each first protrusion on the front plate and a corresponding first protrusion on the rear plate defining a respective active cavity and each second protrusion on the front plate and a corresponding second protrusion on the rear plate defining a respective passive cavity, the refrigerant conduit extending through each of the active cavities but not any of the passive cavities; and inner flat portions of the front plate and the rear plate facing each other to define respective spaced portions, wherein the active cavities and passive cavities are interspersed and separated by respective inner flat portions so as to define a plurality of ice forming sites.

Claim (Index 10):
The evaporator of  claim 8 , wherein each of the plurality of fins has upper and lower ends that, when projected onto a plane running perpendicular to the inner flat portions, defines a notch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61667
- Patent Class: 165.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15353833', '14022887', '10466833', '11722044', '15415951']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8549710188438658
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5653818651358546
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8260121034730648
- Mean Citation Score: 255.62462800000003
- Max Citation Score: 476.89053
- Similarity Product: 381.8857906235004

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

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