PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16107374
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["111", "170000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for minimizing the volume of a liquid carrier used for delivering an agricultural product into a furrow during planting. In one embodiment, a spray nozzle is mounted on a planter row unit so as to dispense a carrier containing an agricultural product along a dispensing pattern in alignment with the pattern width of the spray nozzle, in the direction of the furrow.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for minimizing the volume of a liquid carrier used for delivering an agricultural product into a furrow during planting, comprising:\n a) mounting a spray nozzle on a planter row unit, said spray nozzle having a pattern width thereof, wherein said spray nozzle is mounted on the planter row unit so as to dispense a carrier containing an agricultural product along a dispensing pattern in alignment with the pattern width, in the direction of the furrow; and, b) operating said planter row unit to deliver the carrier containing the agricultural product in a pulsed rate to provide a substantially continuous line of agricultural product in the furrow.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48936
- Patent Class: 111.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15190652', '14521908', '15816792', '15614547', '15208605']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7498981396971425
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5159179811087998
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7265001238383082
- Mean Citation Score: 242.859734
- Max Citation Score: 354.80682
- Similarity Product: 281.28165073969603

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

Dataset: test