PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16226548
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["426", "231000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to dispensing of a substance from a container by means of a dispensing apparatus. Specifically, the exemplary embodiment of the present invention relates to (1) a container and (2) the automated method for opening such container and (3) the automated method of dispensing of the contents from such container into a customer receptacle or glass.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of dispensing a beverage with a machine comprising:\n providing a user with instructions to place a beverage container under a beverage exit orifice in the machine; sensing if the beverage container is present; providing the user with instructions to place a beverage capsule in the machine, the beverage capsule having a capsule body, capsule rim and capsule lid, the capsule lid sealed to the capsule rim; sensing if a capsule has been placed in the machine; reading a code on the capsule lid or capsule body; providing the user with instructions to close a compartment lid over the capsule; pivoting a portion of the capsule body away from the capsule rim along a crease in the capsule body immediately below the rim as the user closes the compartment lid; determining a quantity of mixing liquid to inject into the capsule from said code; injecting a flow of mixing liquid into the capsule; further injecting mixing liquid into the capsule flushing contents into a dispensing port; determining a quantity of finishing liquid to inject into the dispensing port from said code; injecting finishing liquid into the dispensing port; providing the user with instructions to remove the beverage container from the machine; sensing when the beverage container has been removed from the machine; opening a recycle bin; crushing the capsule and forcing it into the recycle bin; closing the recycle bin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83784
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14323792', '15784507', '14323713', '15357268', '13941948']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7573507659998032
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5647155831010986
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7380872477099327
- Mean Citation Score: 390.607038
- Max Citation Score: 439.59488
- Similarity Product: 373.7912794979096

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

Dataset: test