PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750472
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["422", "119000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for sterilizing items and storing the sterilized items prior to use includes a container configured to receive items to be sterilized, a trap door coupled with the container, and a mechanism operatively coupled with the trap door and the container. The trap door is reconfigurable between an open configuration providing a fluid passage into the apparatus and a closed configuration in which the items are hermetically sealed within the apparatus. The mechanism is configured for selective reconfiguration of the trap door from the closed configuration to the open configuration and to automatically reconfigure the trap door from the open configuration to the closed configuration after completion of a sterilization cycle for items disposed within the apparatus.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 18 , further comprising reconfiguring the trap door to the open configuration prior to or during the target portion of the sterilization cycle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23636
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15369713', '15831144', '09990130', '14644094', '14704056']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7473155332374514
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4763589910457468
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7202198790182809
- Mean Citation Score: 165.995394
- Max Citation Score: 171.57602
- Similarity Product: 118.44968302913188

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