PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16305942
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["128", "200230"]

Abstract:
The present invention is a collapsible/expandable and disposable spacer for use with a metered dose inhaler (‘MDI’). One embodiment of the invention is a spacer collapsible into a substantially flat configuration for storage and expandable into a spacer volume for use with a metered dose inhaler (MDI) wherein the spacer comprises: (a) a collapsible and expandable panel arrangement internally located within the spacer volume to divide the spacer volume into a MDI medicament delivery chamber and an inhalation/exhalation chamber when the spacer is in an expanded configuration; (b) a medicament delivery opening adapted to receive a MDI in a MDI medication delivery end of the MDI medicament delivery chamber; (c) an inhalation opening in a mouthpiece end of the inhalation/exhalation chamber; (d) an exhalation opening in the inhalation/exhalation chamber; and further wherein the panel arrangement comprises an aperture off-set from the medicament delivery opening with the proviso that the aperture is not a valved aperture.

Claim (Index 20):
The spacer according to  claim 1 , wherein the spacer is formed from a single punched sheet of foldable material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47887
- Patent Class: 128.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13862533', '15153482', '11535596', '15502521', '12593731']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6705860698445267
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5009894303571509
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6536264058957891
- Mean Citation Score: 233.968494
- Max Citation Score: 254.14278
- Similarity Product: 147.72861328092458

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

Dataset: test