PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886537
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["062", "003300"]

Abstract:
An ice making apparatus for an appliance includes a housing that has an interior volume and an ice tray horizontally suspended across the interior volume that is configured to retain water. The ice making apparatus also includes a heat pump thermally coupled to a bottom surface of the ice tray. The heat pump is configured to freeze water in the ice tray and expel heat. A heat transfer device is configured to move heat expelled by the heat pump to an upper portion of the interior volume.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 18 , further comprising:\n transferring heat from the circulating air across the thermoelectric device to the bottom surface of the ice tray for releasing the substantially clear ice pieces from the tray; and providing a thermal storage element within the interior volume for stabilizing air temperature in an upper portion of the interior volume.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97826
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14673979', '13713199', '13713296', '14980072', '13713262']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8466047749128461
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5321940609947662
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8151637035210382
- Mean Citation Score: 300.73327
- Max Citation Score: 370.70984
- Similarity Product: 317.5401007463884

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

Dataset: test