PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16169898
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["604", "508000"]

Abstract:
A valve is disclosed, the valve comprising a housing having an first opening and a second opening, and an elastomeric member positioned in the housing, the elastomeric member comprising a thickness, a continuous peripheral wall projecting from the thickness, and a slit extending through the thickness, a continuous portion of the peripheral wall creating a continuous sealable contact with the housing and partitioning the housing into an upper section and a lower section, the elastomeric member configured such that upon creating a pressure differential between the upper section and the lower section of the housing causes either: (i) the peripheral wall to deflect from the housing permitting fluid flow around the elastomeric member; or (ii) the slit to open permitting fluid flow through the elastomeric member. Methods using the valve are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 9):
The valve of  claim 1 , wherein the upper portion of the housing comprises an interior wall, the interior wall comprising at least one recessed channel therein and extending substantially along the longitudinal axis of the housing, wherein deflection of the peripheral wall from the housing substantially corresponds to the placement of the at least one recessed channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20896
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14777162', '10207113', '10264863', '10423484', '11350059']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7475754227895716
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.528594855562796
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.725677366066894
- Mean Citation Score: 226.15452
- Max Citation Score: 364.12387
- Similarity Product: 353.78268555783035

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