PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16403132
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["166", "249000"]

Abstract:
Some embodiments include a plasma source. The plasma source includes: (i) a plasma emitter having a first electrode and a second electrode defining an electrode gap therebetween; (ii) stands disposed adjacent to the electrode gap and the plasma emitter; (iii) emitter openings configured such that shockwaves generated by the plasma source are directed through the emitter openings and radially from the plasma emitter, wherein adjacent emitter openings of the emitter openings are separated from each other by at least one stand of the stands; (iv) an enclosure housing at a distal end of the plasma emitter and having a delivery device configured to introduce a conductor through an opening in the second electrode and into the electrode gap; and a device housing at a proximal end of the plasma emitter and having a transformer, a capacitor unit, and a contactor. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 18):
A method comprising:\n providing a plasma source, the plasma source comprising:\n a plasma emitter comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode defining an electrode gap therebetween; \n multiple stands disposed adjacent to the electrode gap and adjacent to the plasma emitter; \n multiple emitter openings configured such that shockwaves generated by the plasma source are directed through the multiple emitter openings and radially from the plasma emitter, wherein adjacent emitter openings of the multiple emitter openings are separated from each other by at least one stand of the multiple stands; \n an enclosure housing at a distal end of the plasma emitter, the enclosure housing comprising a delivery device configured to introduce a conductor through an opening in the second electrode and into the electrode gap; and \n a device housing at a proximal end of the plasma emitter, the device housing comprising:\n a transformer; \n a capacitor unit electrically coupled to the transformer; and \n a contactor electrically coupled to the capacitor unit and the first electrode; \n \n positioning the plasma source in a fluid medium; delivering the conductor into the electrode gap; creating a metallic plasma in the electrode gap; generating a shockwave in the metallic plasma in the electrode gap; and transmitting the shockwave from the metallic plasma into the fluid medium to create oscillations in the fluid medium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22368
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13951020', '15243932', '14934564', '15115619', '15680233']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.800412048532223
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5212292818368817
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7724937718626889
- Mean Citation Score: 284.79772
- Max Citation Score: 370.71674
- Similarity Product: 305.5785131245494

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

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