PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16162258
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["705", "022000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to provide a visual indication of a weight of products stocked on a display assembly, such as a shelf of a shelving unit. The visual indication is provided by virtue of the display assembly having a product support member that sequentially flattens as additional weight is added thereto. A laser device can be mounted proximate to the assembly and oriented to determine a distance to the product support member and a control circuit can be configured to receive the distance and analyze the distance to determine a deflection of the product support member to determine a current stock level.

Claim (Index 12):
A method for determining a stock level, the method comprising:\n receiving one or more products on one or more of a plurality of shelves of a shelving unit, the shelving unit including an upstanding back wall and the plurality of shelves mounted thereto, the plurality of shelves each including a product support member having an intermediate portion of the product support member that is deflectable with respect to outer edges thereof, sequentially deflecting the intermediate portion of the one or more of the plurality of shelves as the one or more products are stocked thereon such that an amount of deflection of the intermediate portion of the product support member varies with respect to a weight of products stocked on the product support member; measuring distances to the product support members with one or more laser devices mounted adjacent to the shelving unit; and analyzing the distances with a control circuit in communication with the one or more laser devices to estimate a deflection of each of the product support members and estimate a weight of products stocked on each of the product support members based on the estimated deflections.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80952
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15709834', '15709812', '15596064', '15875834', '15585246']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.094342735186795
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5026656254236936
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1351750242104848
- Mean Citation Score: 221.045516
- Max Citation Score: 290.73096
- Similarity Product: 267.46799986295696

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