PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874178
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["604", "319000"]

Abstract:
A medical/surgical waste collection rover includes a first waste container disposed on a portable cart and receiving waste under the influence of a vacuum. A fluid measuring system includes a float element disposed within the first waste container, and a controller causing liquid in a reservoir disposed on the cart to prefill the first waste container and subject the float element to an initial lifting to a zero point level. The fluid measuring system determines a volume of contents within the first waste container based on a position of the float element relative to the zero point level. The fluid measuring system may include a sensor rod extending through the first waste container and a second waste container disposed on the cart and separated from the first waste container by a transfer valve. Methods of estimating the volume of liquid and/or medical/surgical waste within the waste container are also provided.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of estimating a volume of liquid and/or medical/surgical waste within a first waste container of a waste collection rover including a reservoir in fluid communication with the waste container, a second waste container, and a fluid measuring system including a transceiver, a sensor rod in electric communication with the transceiver, and float and reference elements, said method comprising the steps of:\n transferring the medical/surgical waste from the first waste container to the second waste container; prefilling the waste container with liquid from the reservoir to subject the float element to an initial lifting from a bottom of the waste container to a zero point level; propagating an interrogation pulse from the transceiver along the sensor rod at an interrogation time; receiving a float return pulse at the transceiver at a float return time; receiving a reference return pulse at the transceiver at a reference return time; determining with the fluid measuring system the volume of the liquid and/or the medical/surgical waste within the waste container based on a known geometry of the waste container and signals from the transceiver indicative of the irrigation time, the float return time, and the reference return time relative to the zero point level.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32836
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12609041', '11610071', '14691613', '15252424', '11352859']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.815670711264771
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5637073000260645
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7904743701409003
- Mean Citation Score: 347.916462
- Max Citation Score: 493.5580000000001
- Similarity Product: 372.5451790188552

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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