PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16039713
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["198", "347100"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for sorting or retrieving items to/from a plurality of destinations areas. The items are loaded onto one of a plurality of independently controlled delivery vehicles. The delivery vehicles follow a track that guides the delivery vehicles to/from the destination areas, which are positioned along the track. Once at the appropriate destination area, an item is transferred between the delivery vehicle and the destination area.

Claim (Index 26):
A vehicle operable in a material handling system having a plurality of destination areas, a track for guiding the delivery vehicle vertically and horizontally to the destination areas and a traffic controller for controlling the operation of a plurality of the vehicles to prevent collisions between the vehicles, wherein the vehicle comprises:\n a plurality of rotatable drive elements; a motor operable to drive the drive elements; a sensor operable to detect rotation of the motor; a transfer mechanism for transferring an item between the delivery vehicle and one of the destination areas; and a wireless communication assembly for communicating signals to the traffic controller regarding the rotation of the motor detected by the sensor and for receiving signals from the traffic controller regarding the amount that the motor may rotate without interfering with another vehicle; wherein the motor is controlled in response to the signals received by the traffic controller so that the motor only rotates the amount specified by the signals received from the traffic controller; wherein the vehicle is configured to continuously communicate signals with the traffic controller regarding the detected rotation of the motor and to continuously receive signals from the traffic controller which iteratively calculates safe distances for the vehicle as the vehicle move along the track.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65217
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15618744', '14149282', '14690541', '13361490', '13631817']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8042300111300097
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5013493882382692
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7739419488408357
- Mean Citation Score: 327.059162
- Max Citation Score: 359.7335
- Similarity Product: 342.984011849314

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