PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16305942
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["128", "200230"]

Abstract:
The present invention is a collapsible/expandable and disposable spacer for use with a metered dose inhaler (‘MDI’). One embodiment of the invention is a spacer collapsible into a substantially flat configuration for storage and expandable into a spacer volume for use with a metered dose inhaler (MDI) wherein the spacer comprises: (a) a collapsible and expandable panel arrangement internally located within the spacer volume to divide the spacer volume into a MDI medicament delivery chamber and an inhalation/exhalation chamber when the spacer is in an expanded configuration; (b) a medicament delivery opening adapted to receive a MDI in a MDI medication delivery end of the MDI medicament delivery chamber; (c) an inhalation opening in a mouthpiece end of the inhalation/exhalation chamber; (d) an exhalation opening in the inhalation/exhalation chamber; and further wherein the panel arrangement comprises an aperture off-set from the medicament delivery opening with the proviso that the aperture is not a valved aperture.

Claim (Index 14):
The spacer according to  claim 2 , wherein the spacer volume is formed by a top body panel joined to a bottom body panel along an edge to form the mouthpiece end, wherein the aperture is located in a panel of the zig-zag panel configuration, and wherein the panel is adjacent to the top body panel of the spacer and the exhalation opening is located in the top body panel of the spacer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47887
- Patent Class: 128.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13862533', '15153482', '11535596', '15502521', '12593731']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6724111429737389
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4914655722861841
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6543165859049834
- Mean Citation Score: 233.968494
- Max Citation Score: 254.14278
- Similarity Product: 174.1850556445205

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

Dataset: test