PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16012824
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "230000"]

Abstract:
Systems and apparatus with circuits that are configured to detect fallen containers upstream or proximate an intake zone suitable for automated evaluation apparatus using different sensors, including at least one lower sensor and at least one upper sensor which is positioned to project an optical signal at a height corresponding to a top portion of an upright container to thereby allow an increased reliability in detection of different orientations and positions of fallen containers. An optional second lower sensor may be used which is longitudinally spaced apart from the first lower sensor and the lower sensors can transmit optical signals across the container travel path that do not intersect.

Claim (Index 17):
An automated detection apparatus for detection of microorganism growth in test samples, comprising:\n a housing enclosing an interior temperature controlled chamber; a container loading system comprising a conveyor defining a travel path that transports groups of elongated containers with test samples to the housing for processing; a rotating wheel in cooperating alignment with the conveyor, the wheel having a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart pockets, each pocket configured to accept a single elongated container; a detection device located within the housing configured to detect microorganism growth in specimen containers loaded into the housing; and a plurality of spaced apart sensors residing proximate the wheel, the sensors including (i) at least one lower sensor including a first lower sensor configured to transmit a respective optical signal across a portion of a pocket of the wheel at a loading position and (ii) at least one upper sensor that is positioned to transmit a respective upper optical signal at a height that is above the at least one lower sensor optical signal and corresponds to a top portion of an upright container to thereby allow detection of different orientations and positions of containers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45455
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13796874', '13854743', '15097410', '13004269', '11425797']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3456917427164536
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5168549869517222
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3628080671399805
- Mean Citation Score: 186.529572
- Max Citation Score: 335.5239
- Similarity Product: 324.53690866879816

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