PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15985161
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["004", "668000"]

Abstract:
A fluid delivery apparatus includes a spout, an active sensor, and a passive sensor. The active sensor is configured to detect the presence of a user adjacent the spout when enabled. The passive sensor is configured to define a sensing field in an area near the spout and also to detect a presence of a user. A controller is coupled to the passive sensor and the active sensor. The controller is programmed to detect the presence of a user in the sensing field based on an output signal from the active sensor in response to detecting the presence of the user in the sensing field with the passive sensor, thereby reducing the amount of power used by the active sensor.

Claim (Index 20):
A method comprising:\n providing a spout, a normally disabled high power, active sensor adjacent the spout; providing a low power, passive sensor adjacent the spout; providing a controller coupled to the passive sensor and the active sensor; detecting presence of a user in a sensing field near the spout based on an output from the passive sensor; enabling the active sensor in response to detecting the presence of the user in the sensing field with the passive sensor; and detecting the presence of the user adjacent the spout with the enabled active sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56
- Patent Class: 4.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14776559', '12525324', '13495525', '14330991', '13642462']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8097169735346
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5105683407435169
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7798021102554917
- Mean Citation Score: 233.58127
- Max Citation Score: 303.7371
- Similarity Product: 259.4042384197533

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