PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906935
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "218000"]

Abstract:
An automated warehousing system for use in a warehouse having a storage racks includes drawers partitioned into multiple compartments to contain different parcels, the drawers being at designated locations of individual cells in the storage racks and adapted to be opened and closed. The system also has a plurality of drones configured to identify a designated one of the drawers at a designated location and a designated one compartment of the designated one drawer. The drones have gripper heads translatable relative to opened drawers to retrieve parcels therefrom. The system further has a communication subsystem communicating with the drones to control their flying and also to control their gripper heads relative to opened drawers and communicating with individual cells for opening and closing drawers as drones approach and depart the selected individual cells.

Claim (Index 1):
An automated overhead warehousing system for use restocking a plurality of storage racks in a warehouse, the automated warehousing system comprising:\n at least one storage rack defining a plurality of storage rack cells, each storage rack cell incorporating a respective cell drawer translatable between an inaccessible closed state and an accessible opened state, each cell drawer partitioned into a plurality of separate individual cell drawer compartments wherein each individual compartment of each cell drawer is associated with a unique parcel type for storage therein, and wherein each one of the plurality of drawers is provided at a designated parcel deposit location proximate to a corresponding one of the plurality of storage rack cells and wherein each one of the plurality of drawers has a unique identification marker associated therewith and transmitting a signal identifying each of the drawers at each of the designated parcel deposit locations and further identifying any respective drawer compartment that is empty; a plurality of drones each including a parcel gripping component translatable relative to a designated drawer in an accessible opened state at a designated parcel deposit location, said parcel gripping component configured for depositing at least one new parcel into a designated empty one of said compartments of said open designated drawer; and a communication subsystem for communicating to the plurality drones the signals transmitted by the drawer identification markers associated with each of the drawers identifying any designated drawer compartments that are empty and ready for deposit of at least one new parcel, the communication subsystem in further communication with each of the drones for dispatching the drones with a controlled flight trajectory to a designated parcel deposit location proximate to the respective one of the plurality of individual cells provided in each of the storage racks, opening the designated drawer in conjunction with the approach of the drone at the designated parcel deposit location, identifying which compartments of each of the multiple compartments in the designated opened drawer is empty and ready for deposit, and closing the designated drawer after the deposit of a new parcel therein in conjunction with the departure of the drone, wherein the communication subsystem is in further communication with at least one of the plurality of drones to control the drone's gripping component to retrieve and deposit the at least one new parcel into the identified designated compartment corresponding to the multiple compartments in the designated opened drawer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15682647', '15461756', '15076995', '15456311', '14565518']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4400397094348411
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6849796954029721
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4645337080316541
- Mean Citation Score: 480.30007200000017
- Max Citation Score: 754.56415
- Similarity Product: 680.1582553956389

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