PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16378295
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["131", "328000"]

Abstract:
A smoking article for on-demand delivery of an increased quantity of an aerosol precursor composition, a cartridge, and a method are disclosed. In some aspects, the cartridge includes a housing, and a reservoir disposed within the housing and defining two or more chambers each having an aerosol precursor composition therein. The reservoir is in fluid communication with an aerosol forming arrangement configured to form an aerosol from any of the aerosol precursor compositions, with the respective aerosol precursor compositions of the two or more chambers being directed to the aerosol forming arrangement in substantially equal normal quantities. The cartridge further includes an actuator configured to selectively and operably engage any one of the chambers and to direct an increased quantity of the aerosol precursor composition from the chamber engaged therewith to the aerosol forming arrangement, the increased quantity being greater than the normal quantity of the aerosol precursor compositions.

Claim (Index 15):
A cartridge for a smoking article, comprising:\n a housing having a proximal end and an opposing distal end engagable with a control body including a power source and electrical terminals in communication with the power source of the smoking article, the distal end of the housing including heater terminals arranged to engage the electrical terminals of the control body upon engagement of the housing of the cartridge and the control body so as to form an electrical connection therebetween; a reservoir disposed within the housing and extending longitudinally from a first end disposed toward the proximal end of the housing to a second end disposed toward the distal end of the housing, the reservoir defining a plurality of chambers each having an aerosol precursor composition disposed therein, wherein the aerosol precursor composition is selectively dispensable from any of the plurality of chambers; a selector defining one or more dispensing ports arranged to be selectively aligned with one or more of the plurality of chambers, such that the aerosol precursor composition disposed within each of the one or more of the plurality of chambers is capable of being selectively dispensed therefrom through the selectively aligned one or more dispensing ports; and a heating element in fluid communication with the reservoir, so that the selector is disposed between the plurality of chambers and the heating element, the heating element being arranged to directly receive the aerosol precursor composition selectively dispensed from any of the plurality of chambers, and the heating element being arranged in communication with heater terminals at the distal end of the housing so as to receive an electrical current from the power source and generate heat in response thereto, the heat generated by the heating element interacting with the aerosol precursor composition selectively dispensed from any of the plurality of chambers and received by the heating element directly from each respective chamber so as to form an aerosol therefrom.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 117.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23944
- Patent Class: 131.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15378772', '16107828', '14309282', '14524778', '15782543']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8193475484216874
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5739903807561696
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7948118316551357
- Mean Citation Score: 353.185162
- Max Citation Score: 479.91
- Similarity Product: 407.95778007030486

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

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