PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981219
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["221", "001000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a pill dispensing apparatus that automatically dispenses pills to patients. Also provided is a method of automatically dispensing pills to patients.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of automatically dispensing packaged pills comprising:\n loading at least one cartridge with packaged pills, the cartridge constructed and arranged to dispense the packaged pills, wherein the pills are individually packaged; installing the cartridge containing the individually packaged pills onto a pill dispenser constructed and arranged to removably receive the cartridge, the pill dispenser having a pill collector constructed and arranged to collect the individually packaged pills dispensed from the at least one cartridge, a low pill sensor constructed and arranged to sense a number of individually packaged pills remaining in the cartridge, and a pill collector sensor constructed and arranged to signal when a patient has removed an individually packaged pill from the pill collector; setting a timer on a controller to control the rate and number of the individually packaged pills to be dispensed from the at least one cartridge to the pill collector, the controller being in communication with the low pill sensor, the controller being in communication with the pill collector sensor; alerting a patient when the individually packaged pill has been dispensed into the pill collector; providing an alert when the dispensed individually packaged pill has not been removed from the pill collector after a set time period; and providing an alert when the number of individually packaged pills remaining in the cartridge is low or on last pill.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.47059
- Patent Class: 221.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11661655', '11356764', '11741313', '13196222', '13455634']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7541420544100399
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5489591399853528
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7336237629675713
- Mean Citation Score: 279.484402
- Max Citation Score: 394.45718
- Similarity Product: 382.36292166311983

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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