PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16241295
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["221", "001000"]

Abstract:
A dispensing apparatus for dispensing articles includes a housing and a drive system. The housing defines a hopper chamber to hold the articles, a dispensing outlet, and a dispensing path between the hopper chamber and the dispensing outlet. The drive system includes a belt and a belt actuator operable to drive the belt. The dispensing apparatus is configured such that articles disposed in the hopper chamber are directed onto the belt and the belt, when driven by the belt actuator, conveys the articles received from the hopper chamber in a dispensing direction along the dispensing path toward the dispensing outlet to be dispensed.

Claim (Index 41):
The dispensing apparatus of  claim 40  including an active feed control system including an article transport member and a feed actuator to drive the article transport member to transfer articles from the hopper chamber to the belt.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41304
- Patent Class: 221.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14080468', '15297895', '15046619', '12492933', '13935279']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8153340055350249
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6360732158890514
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7974079265704276
- Mean Citation Score: 486.74545400000005
- Max Citation Score: 605.8562599999998
- Similarity Product: 517.5045091669867

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