PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16114597
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["384", "320000"]

Abstract:
A bearing assembly comprising a bearing shell, thrust bearing pads, and journal bearing pads, where the thrust bearing pads and/or the journal bearing pads have through-pad lubricating gas distributors comprising at least one of a porous layer having connected-through porosity, a dense layer having a plurality of at least six orifices defined therethrough, or a porous layer having connected-through porosity having a plurality of at least six orifices defined therethrough.

Claim (Index 2):
The bearing assembly according to  claim 1  wherein the plurality of at least three thrust bearing pads each comprise through-pad lubricating gas distributors, wherein the one or more lubricating gas inlet ports comprise a lubricating gas inlet port operatively connected to the plurality of at least three thrust bearing pads, the bearing assembly further comprising:\n a regulator associated with the at least one of the one or more lubricating gas inlet ports operatively connected to the plurality of at least three thrust bearing pads for flow and/or pressure control of lubricating gas to the plurality of at least three thrust bearing pads.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11111
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14655467', '14314218', '15034946', '14457445', '13484751']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7862670027420157
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4781539758994881
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7554557000577629
- Mean Citation Score: 206.593632
- Max Citation Score: 211.52026
- Similarity Product: 162.76589013095258

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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