PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018580
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "214000"]

Abstract:
Provided herein are various apparatuses, systems, and methods for improving the efficiency of medication distribution within a healthcare facility. In particular, embodiments may provide for dispensing medications needed and medications anticipated to be needed to an authorized medical person for administration to a patient in a healthcare facility. Methods may include receiving an indication of one or more unit dose medications anticipated to be needed by a patient; retrieving the one or more unit dose medications from a unit storage device; loading the one or more unit dose medications onto a transport device; transporting the one or more unit dose medications from the unit storage device to a location proximate the patient; and transferring the one or more unit dose medications from the transport device to a staging area at the location proximate the patient.

Claim (Index 11):
A system for dispensing medication, the system comprising:\n a plurality of trays, each tray comprising a plurality of medications, wherein each of a plurality of locations within the tray is uniquely identified by a controller, and each unique identified location within the tray is associated with a medication received within the respective location; a storage device configured to store the plurality of trays of unit dose medications wherein each of the plurality of unit dose medications stored within the storage device comprises a unit dose medication label having unique identifying indicia disposed thereon; a controller configured to receive an order including a first medication and a second medication; a robotic retrieving device; and a scanning tool attached to the robotic retrieving device, wherein the scanner is configured to scan the identifying indicia of each unit dose medication label prior to retrieval; wherein the robotic retrieving device is configured to:\n scan contents of at least one of the one or more locations of a first tray; \n retrieve the first medication from one of the one or more locations of the first tray; \n advance the first medication to a staging area; \n scan contents of another of the one or more locations of a second tray; \n retrieve the second medication from the another of the one or more locations of the second tray; and \n advance the second medication to the staging area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26562
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15057783', '13836107', '13835431', '15719671', '12570472']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4795809969937506
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.597065774374802
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4913294747318558
- Mean Citation Score: 387.378908
- Max Citation Score: 551.4357
- Similarity Product: 467.506998296535

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