PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16040065
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["700", "233000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for assembling and vending a food or drink product using a machine having a viewing window into the interior thereof. The user selects through a user interface one of a plurality of characters, then selects through the interface the ingredients to include in the product. The ingredients are dispensed into a receptacle that is moved between dispensing locations within the machine by a robotic arm. An animated sequence, soundtrack and lighting pattern is associated with each character. As the robotic arm assembles the product, the animated sequence, soundtrack and lighting for the selected character are run and shown on a display. The user is able to watch the movements of the robotic arm and the animated sequence simultaneously.

Claim (Index 16):
A food or beverage vending machine for assembling and delivering a food or beverage product to a user of the machine, said machine comprising:\n a housing having an interior and a transparent viewing window for viewing at least a portion of the interior by a user of the machine; a food or beverage dispensing station contained within the housing for dispensing a measured amount of a food or beverage into a product receptacle; one or more additive dispensing stations contained within the housing, each of said food or beverage dispensing station and one or more additive stations being positioned at locations each spaced a distance away from each other, each of said one or more additive dispensing stations configured to dispense a measured amount of an additive into the product receptacle; a user interface for selecting one or more parameters of the food or beverage product; a product delivery port for delivering the product receptacle containing the food or beverage product to the user; a robotic arm movable in three dimensions for moving the product receptacle between the locations of the food or beverage dispensing station and the one or more additive stations for progressive assembly of the food or beverage product and for moving the assembled food or beverage product from one of the locations of the food or beverage dispensing station and the one or more additive stations to the product delivery port; and an electronic processor for controlling operation of the machine based on selections entered through the user interface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85915
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12945395', '11669768', '14689746', '15425225', '13830974']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4653420088956062
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5705451631789118
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4758623243239368
- Mean Citation Score: 347.018426
- Max Citation Score: 490.9015
- Similarity Product: 419.2237228213549

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

Dataset: test