PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863028
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["073", "863010"]

Abstract:
A laboratory sample distribution system is presented. The system comprises carriers to carry sample containers. Each carrier comprises a magnetically active device. The system comprises a transport plane to support the carriers and electro-magnetic actuators stationary arranged below the transport plane. The actuators move the carriers on top of the transport plane by applying a magnetic force to the carriers. The system comprises a control device to control the movement of the carriers on top of the transport plane by driving the actuators such that the carriers move along corresponding transport paths simultaneously and independently from one another and a sensor to measure supply currents and/or supply voltages. The actuators are supplied with electrical energy based on the supply currents and/or the supply voltages. The system comprises a monitoring device coupled to the sensor. The monitoring device monitors the actuators temperature based on the measured supply currents and/or supply voltages.

Claim (Index 1):
A laboratory sample distribution system, the laboratory sample distribution system comprising:\n a number of sample container carriers configured to carry one or more sample containers, each sample container carrier comprising at least one magnetically active device; a transport plane configured to support the sample container carriers; a number of electro-magnetic actuators stationary arranged below the transport plane, the electro-magnetic actuators configured to move the sample container carriers on top of the transport plane by applying a magnetic force to the sample container carriers; a control device configured to control the movement of the sample container carriers on top of the transport plane by driving the electro-magnetic actuators such that the sample container carriers move along corresponding transport paths simultaneously and independently from one another; a sensor configured to measure supply currents (Id) and/or supply voltages (Udc), wherein the electro-magnetic actuators are supplied with electrical energy based on the supply currents (Id) and/or the supply voltages (Udc); and a monitoring device functionally coupled to the sensor, wherein the monitoring device is configured to monitor temperatures of the electro-magnetic actuators based on the measured supply currents (Id) and/or measured supply voltages (Udc).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33824
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15800212', '14834507', '15455773', '14920097', '14263034']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7419138080937997
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4823274415627419
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.715955171440694
- Mean Citation Score: 269.685182
- Max Citation Score: 270.4826
- Similarity Product: 259.2248357594371

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

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