PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15883248
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["700", "230000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to automatically balance and buffer the return of empty containers or other totes to a plurality of areas. In some embodiments, a control circuit employs a logic system in which empty totes are directed along primary, secondary, or tertiary paths depending on information gathered from sensors regarding the availability of space for empty totes at a plurality of potential destinations. In this way, the return of empty totes to one or more points of origin may be buffered to balance the number of empty totes in one or more areas.

Claim (Index 4):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein the buffer component comprises a tote storage buffer component.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71429
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14435562', '11265747', '13591950', '14966774', '14808235']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4293561486560981
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5066030682427102
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4370808406147593
- Mean Citation Score: 193.13478
- Max Citation Score: 244.6572
- Similarity Product: 141.45479530155657

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

Dataset: test