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 11):
A medical/surgical waste collection rover comprising:\n a portable cart; a first waste container disposed on said portable cart and adapted to receive medical/surgical waste with said first waste container comprising a connecting member adapted to be coupled to a suction line to draw the medical/surgical waste into said first container under the influence of a vacuum; a second waste container disposed on said portable cart; a transfer valve disposed between said first and second waste containers with said transfer valve operable between open and closed positions for allowing transfer of the medical/surgical waste from said first waste container to said second waste container. a fluid measuring system comprising:\n a sensor rod extending through said first waste container and said second waste container; \n a transceiver electrically coupled to said sensor rod and adapted to propagate an interrogation pulse along said sensor rod and receive a float return pulse; and\n a float element disposed within said first waste container and configured to float within said first waste container and further configured to reflect back to said transceiver the float return pulse along said sensor rod in response to receiving the interrogation pulse, \n \n wherein said fluid measuring system is configured to determine a volume of the medical/surgical waste within said first waste container based on a known geometry of said first waste container and signals generated by said transceiver associated with the interrogation pulse and the float return pulse.

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): 0.8124798162510003
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5757670424783908
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7888085388737394
- Mean Citation Score: 347.916462
- Max Citation Score: 493.5580000000001
- Similarity Product: 436.77932092750086

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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