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 11):
An automated overhead warehousing system for use for re-stocking a plurality of storage racks in a warehouse An automated warehousing method for use for re-stocking a plurality of storage racks in a warehouse, said automated warehousing method comprising the steps of:\n providing a plurality of drawers, wherein each of the drawers are individually divided into multiple compartments to contain a variety of different parcels therein, each of the drawers are provided in a designated deposit parcel location proximate to one of a plurality of cells provided in each of the plurality of storage racks; providing each of the drawers with an identification marker thereon transmitting a signal identifying each of the drawers at each of the designated deposit parcel locations and also identifying which one of the multiple compartments of each of the drawers are empty for deposit, wherein each of the drawers are adapted to be opened and closed relative to each of the plurality of individual cells in each of the plurality of storage racks; providing a plurality of drones, wherein each drone includes a gripping component translatable relative to a designated drawer that is opened at the designated deposit parcel location to deposit at least one new parcel into a designated compartment corresponding to one of the multiple compartments in the opened designated drawer; communicating to each of the drones the signals transmitted by the identification markers on each of the drawers identifying which one of the designated compartment corresponding to one of the multiple compartments in each of the drawers are empty and ready for deposit of the at least one new parcel and opening the identified drawer with the designated compartment that is empty and ready for deposit before the arrival of the drone; and communicating with each of the drones to control movement of the drones gripping members to retrieve and deposit the at least one new parcel into the designated compartment corresponding to one of the multiple compartments in the opened designated 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): 0.439898020148852
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6853264942972133
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4644408675636881
- Mean Citation Score: 480.30007200000017
- Max Citation Score: 754.56415
- Similarity Product: 681.1783903244793

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