PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15913306
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["312", "333000"]

Abstract:
A trash bin cabinet for a checkout station in a retail store is described. The checkout station includes the trash bin cabinet with a drawer locking mechanism, and a trash level sensor with an optical notification system. The trash bin cabinet has a drawer unit that contains at least one trash bin. The drawer locking mechanism locks the drawer when the drawer unit is closed so the drawer unit does not come open by itself and become a hazard or a nuisance. The trash level sensor senses the level of trash in the trash bins and sends a trash level status signal to the optical notification system. The optical notification system optically radiates the trash level status signal so people or sensors can monitor the level of trash in the trash bins without visiting the checkout station.

Claim (Index 1):
A trash bin cabinet for a checkout station in a retail store, the trash bin cabinet comprising:\n a cabinet housing having a cabinet side panel and a cabinet front panel; a drawer unit that extends out from and retracts into the cabinet housing, wherein the drawer unit comprises at least one trash bin; and a drawer locking mechanism comprising:\n an ear coupled to the drawer unit, wherein the ear is formed of a flat elongate bar of rigid material comprising:\n an ear first end, wherein the ear first end is coupled to a drawer unit side panel adjacent a drawer unit side panel front edge; \n an ear second end opposing the ear first end; \n an ear hole through the flat elongate bar of rigid material; and \n a longitudinal axis extending from the ear first end to the ear second end, wherein the longitudinal axis is parallel to a drawer unit direction of motion; and \n \n a pin coupled to a cabinet side panel outer surface, wherein the pin retractably extends through a pin hole in the cabinet side panel; \n wherein the drawer unit is locked closed in response to the pin extending through both the pin hole and the ear hole.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21538
- Patent Class: 312.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10665835', '11461104', '11871327', '13000028', '13765146']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7716177078682158
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4814243633827238
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7425983734196667
- Mean Citation Score: 177.527524
- Max Citation Score: 192.86516
- Similarity Product: 144.6710106399107

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

Dataset: test