PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16145326
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["235", "385000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to detect shopping carts and/or estimate the number of shopping carts in a specified area of a retail facility. In some embodiments, detected magnetic fields from an area are compared with values from a database to estimate the number of shopping carts present, and notifications may be provided regarding actions to be taken based on the arrangement and density of shopping carts in the area.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for monitoring shopping carts in storage area of a retail facility, the method comprising:\n selectively powering on and off a linear array of unidirectional magnetic sensors such that when powered a range of each sensor is limited to the storage area; detecting a magnitude of induced electromagnetic fields through the linear array of unidirectional magnetic sensors, the magnetic sensors spaced apart along the length of a shopping cart storage area with each magnetic sensor at approximately the same vertical position; through a control circuit, comparing detected values from each magnetic sensor to respective threshold values from a database; and transmitting a notification regarding actions to be taken by a sales associate based on a comparison of the detected values to the threshold values.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70213
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13857006', '11277016', '12202075', '15479658', '13850220']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5787908551316636
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4709514825145706
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5680069178699544
- Mean Citation Score: 190.540432
- Max Citation Score: 194.67514
- Similarity Product: 138.94498436065078

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