PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16244479
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["700", "282000"]

Abstract:
A flow control apparatus adapted for a feeding set includes a housing capable of receiving at least a portion of the feeding set and a pumping device for acting on the feeding set to produce fluid flow in the feeding set for delivery of fluid. The pumping device has a rotor and a motor operatively connector to the rotor for rotating the rotor to act on the feeding set to produce fluid flow in the feeding set. The apparatus has a sensor arranged with respect to the pumping device to produce a signal indicative of a rotational position of the rotor, and a control circuit in communication with the sensor for receiving the sensor signal from the sensor indicative of the rotational position of the rotor and in communication with the pumping device to control operation thereof. The control circuit controls operation of the motor at a first output to rotate the rotor to produce fluid flow in the feeding set and at a second output effectively less than the first output, the control circuit monitoring the sensor signal during operation of the motor at the second output to determine occlusion in the feeding set.

Claim (Index 1):
A flow control apparatus adapted to load a feeding set, said flow control apparatus comprising:\n a housing capable of receiving at least a portion of the feeding set; a pumping device configured to contact the feeding set when the feeding set is received by the housing so the pumping device acts on the feeding set to produce fluid flow in the feeding set for delivery of fluid in a patient direction to a patient, the pumping device including a rotor that rotates to act on the feeding set to produce fluid flow in the feeding set; and a control circuit configured to rotate the rotor to contact the feeding set to produce a pumping action of fluid in the patient direction through the feeding set to complete a feeding cycle, the control circuit rotating the rotor to produce fluid flow in the feeding set during a first portion of the feeding cycle and rotating the rotor at a second output less than the first output but greater than an output of zero during an entire second portion of the feeding cycle, the first portion of the feeding cycle being longer than the second portion of the feeding cycle, wherein the control circuit rotates the rotor at the first output until a single aliquot of fluid is left to be pumped in the feeding cycle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.19048
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14882747', '14818387', '14806159', '10854136', '11464429']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3811412246130403
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5121736951733055
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3942444716690668
- Mean Citation Score: 241.760514
- Max Citation Score: 327.94543
- Similarity Product: 315.59691983092534

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