PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16054716
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["165", "137000"]

Abstract:
An ice distribution system and method according to which ice-filled bags are distributed within a unit such as, for example, an ice merchandiser.

Claim (Index 8):
A method, comprising:\n providing an apparatus, the apparatus comprising:\n a temperature-controlled storage unit defining an internal region in which a plurality of ice-filled bags are adapted to be stored, \n one or more tracks extending within the internal region, \n a component coupled to, and movable along, the one or more tracks, and \n a sensor movable with the component, \n wherein a portion of the internal region defines an available space in which a first ice-filled bag is adapted to be disposed; \n placing the apparatus in a first configuration, in which the first ice-filled bag is supported by the component before the first ice-filled bag is disposed in the available space; moving the component along the one or more tracks when the apparatus is in the first configuration; moving the sensor with the component; identifying, using the sensor, the available space when the apparatus is in the first configuration; and actuating the apparatus from the first configuration to a second configuration, in which the first ice-filled bag is disposed in the identified available space.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.08333
- Patent Class: 165.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15477340', '13751227', '12130946', '13899859', '14227061']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8676551518096058
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5687747154093948
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8377671081695848
- Mean Citation Score: 268.410816
- Max Citation Score: 329.85706
- Similarity Product: 315.4202534905553

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