PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058578
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["700", "214000"]

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 5):
The system of  claim 2 , wherein the plurality of storage locations comprise a forward array of storage locations separated, by a gap, from a rearward array of storage locations, and wherein each vehicle is movable within the gap whereby the first displaceable element is operative to engage totes disposed within the forward array of storage locations and the second displaceable element is operative to engage totes disposed within the rearward array of storage locations.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65217
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15700663', '13859598', '15096433', '15784580', '15668380']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4947655442650978
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5214093501751697
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.497429924856105
- Mean Citation Score: 321.69124
- Max Citation Score: 356.43228
- Similarity Product: 293.37969669671065

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

Dataset: test