PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891786
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["015", "001700"]

Abstract:
A swimming pool cleaner is driven along a submerged surface by water and debris flowing past a turbine positioned between an inlet and outlet of the cleaner. Retractable elements carried proximate the inlet form a plenum for water to enhance adherence of the pool cleaner to the submerged pool surface being cleaner. A drive train independently drives each of two wheels for maneuvering the pool cleaner in forward and reverse directions along the submerged surface. A hose connector operable with an outlet port is angled toward the forward direction of movement of the pool cleaner such that a suction hose will be placed slightly ahead of the pool cleaner when climbing a side wall surface to provide a weight for keeping the cleaner below the water surface and thus prevent an undesirable sucking of air at the inlet.

Claim (Index 16):
A pool cleaner comprising:\n a housing having an inlet; two wheels operable for driving the housing along a submerged surface, wherein an outer diameter of at least one of the wheels defines a perimeter thereof; first and second opposing retractable elements operably carried by the housing forward and aft the inlet, respectively, for contacting the surface to be cleaned, wherein each of the first and second retractable elements includes a shape defined by an outer surface and a tubular portion; and first and second axles carried by the housing, wherein the tubular portion of each of the first and second retractable elements is loosely rotatable, respectively, about the first and second axles, and wherein each retractable element is operable for extending beyond the perimeter and for retracting within the perimeter responsive to movement of the pool cleaner along the submerged surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79747
- Patent Class: 15.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14685861', '14017758', '14976404', '10296778', '12121587']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8779056498086538
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5631617726934227
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8464312620971307
- Mean Citation Score: 413.032524
- Max Citation Score: 496.63565
- Similarity Product: 430.9913092031121

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