PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945614
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["361", "139000"]

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide irrigation valve control apparatuses comprising: a solenoid configured to cooperate with a plunger; an input stimulus source coupled with the solenoid and configured to apply an input stimulus while a plunger drive signal is not being applied and that is sufficiently small to not cause the plunger to move; sampling circuitry configured to measure one or more voltage measurements corresponding to one or more voltages across the solenoid, wherein the one or more voltage measurements are dependent upon the current position of the plunger relative to the solenoid; and control circuitry cooperated with the sampling circuitry to receive the one or more voltage measurements from the sampling circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is configured to determine whether the plunger is in one of the open and closed positions based on the one or more voltage measurements.

Claim (Index 30):
The irrigation valve control apparatus of  claim 23 , wherein the amplitude-modulated pulse corresponds to a signal at an input to the solenoid, wherein, in measuring the one or more voltage measurements, the sampling circuitry measures the signal that has been amplified by the gain stage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11594
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15445390', '14133595', '15606413', '14133598', '14873561']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9141459254499258
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5961340992287241
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8823447428278057
- Mean Citation Score: 450.09112200000015
- Max Citation Score: 526.3628
- Similarity Product: 380.7147203217268

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