PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976461
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["406", "002000"]

Abstract:
A method for delivering items in a pneumatic delivery system includes receiving delivery information corresponding to an item to be delivered from a first workstation of a plurality of workstations to a second one of the workstations, configuring a first one of a plurality of blowers and a corresponding workstation diverter corresponding to the first workstation to create a path from the first workstation to the first blower, operating the first blower to generate suction drawing the item to the first blower, configuring a subset of the plurality of diverters of the system to create a continuous path from the first blower to the second workstation and routing, when the first and second workstations are in separate subsystems of the pneumatic delivery system, the item through an inter-subsystem exchange unit so that the item is delivered to the second workstation using only the first blower.

Claim (Index 21):
A pneumatic delivery system, comprising:\n a plurality of subsystems, each subsystem including a plurality of workstations and blowers, the blowers configured to move items between the plurality of workstations via a network of tubing, each subsystem further including:\n a plurality of diverters for configuring a desired path for the items through the tubing, the plurality of diverters including workstation diverters, each workstation diverter being coupled to a corresponding one of the workstations within the subsystem, subsystem diverters, each subsystem diverter coupling a zone diverter to a plurality of blower diverters, each blower diverter coupling a corresponding one of the blowers to the subsystem diverters; \n an inter-subsystem hub including a first inter-subsystem diverter coupling the subsystem diverters to a first inter-subsystem diverter of first one of the subsystems and a second inter-subsystem diverter coupling the blower diverters to a second inter-subsystem diverter of a second one of the plurality of subsystems; \n wherein the tubing couples inter-subsystem hubs of at least two of the subsystems together to move items therebetween.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60345
- Patent Class: 406.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15191037', '15191064', '13026530', '14254122', '11068084']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6226146559927023
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.575492972429303
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6179024876363624
- Mean Citation Score: 258.787052
- Max Citation Score: 462.448
- Similarity Product: 403.3517820053101

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

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