PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961805
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "244000"]

Abstract:
A medication management system, having a pill dispensing system having: a funnel having an open bottom end; a tube holder; a tube having: a hollow interior; means for securing the tube to the tube holder, such that a rotational movement of the tube holder causes a same rotational movement of the tube; a pill receiving hole facing upwards when the pill dispensing system is not actuated, and providing access to the hollow interior; wherein the open bottom end is aligned with the pill receiving hole when the pill dispensing system is not actuated, such that the pill receiving hole is configured to receive a pill, the pill dropping from the funnel into and housed within the hollow interior; and means for causing the rotational movement, such that the pill receiving hole faces downwards and thus dispenses the pill housed within the hollow interior out of the pill dispensing system.

Claim (Index 1):
A medication management system, comprising a pill dispensing system having:\n a funnel for storing medication, the funnel having:\n an open top end; and \n an open bottom end, wherein the open top end is larger than the open bottom end; \n a tube holder having:\n a first tube holder end; \n a second tube holder end; \n a fin extending between the first tube holder end and the second tube holder end; \n wherein the first tube holder end is associated with a gear wheel; \n a tube having:\n a hollow interior; \n a first tube end; \n a second tube end; \n a channel extending between the first tube end and the second tube end, the channel being configured to receive the fin when the tube slides into the tube holder, and the channel being configured to restrict a side-to-side movement of the tube within the tube holder when the first tube end is aligned with the first tube holder end and the second tube end is aligned with the second tube holder end, such that the tube is secured to the tube holder, and such that a rotational movement of the tube holder causes a same rotational movement of the tube; \n a pill receiving hole between the first tube end and the second tube end, the pill receiving hole facing an upwards direction when the pill dispensing system is not actuated, and the pill receiving hole providing access to the hollow interior; \n wherein the open bottom end is aligned with the pill receiving hole when the pill dispensing system is not actuated, such that the pill receiving hole is configured to receive a pill of the medication, wherein the pill drops from the funnel into and is housed within the hollow interior; \n wherein the tube is removable from the tube holder by sliding the tube in a lengthwise direction away from the tube holder; and \n a rack and pinion actuator for actuation of the pill dispensing system, wherein:\n a rack of the rack and pinion actuator is at least a gear arm; \n a pinion of the rack and pinion actuator comprises the gear wheel; and \n a gear arm actuator is configured to move the pinion, thus causing the rotational movement of the tube holder due to the association of the tube holder with the gear wheel; \n such that the rotational movement causes the pill receiving hole to face a downwards direction and thus dispense the pill housed within the hollow interior out of the pill dispensing system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.73333
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14610392', '10852719', '13161664', '14485371', '15442675']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4139714593790797
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4864280171530952
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4212171151564813
- Mean Citation Score: 210.17372200000003
- Max Citation Score: 251.50432
- Similarity Product: 196.0304548634529

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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