PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16086453
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["433", "027000"]

Abstract:
A whitening smart pen apparatus ( 10 ) for automatically dispensing a teeth whitening substance onto one or more teeth of a user comprises a fluid reservoir ( 16 ), a nozzle ( 18 ) having an output port ( 26 ), a fluid dispenser ( 20 ), a sensor ( 22 ) and a controller ( 24 ). The fluid dispenser dispenses the teeth whitening substance from the fluid reservoir to the nozzle and is output via the output port. The sensor, positioned in an advance dispensing direction of the nozzle, senses a target surface that comprises either (i) a tooth surface ( 12 ) or (ii) other surface ( 14 ). The controller ( 24 ) is configured for (i) controlling a gating of the fluid dispenser ( 20 ) to dispense the teeth whitening substance from the fluid reservoir ( 16 ) in response to the sensor ( 22 ) detecting the tooth surface ( 12 ), and (ii) stopping or disabling the gating of the fluid dispenser to stop or disable a dispensing of the teeth whitening substance from the fluid reservoir in response to the sensor ( 22 ) detecting the other surface ( 14 ).

Claim (Index 9):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the gating of the fluid dispenser to dispense the teeth whitening substance comprises gating a limited controlled quantity of the teeth whitening substance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.04167
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14289824', '14609355', '14664658', '14087401', '13411373']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7107855584225873
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4827861191166755
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6879856144919961
- Mean Citation Score: 219.887214
- Max Citation Score: 236.65446
- Similarity Product: 181.3476127616322

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

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