PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863017
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["701", "025000"]

Abstract:
A hybrid modular storage fetching system is described. In an example implementation, an automated guided vehicle of the hybrid modular storage fetching system includes a drive unit that provides motive force to propel the automated guided vehicle within an operating environment. The automated guided vehicle may also include a container handling mechanism including an extender and a carrying surface, the container handling mechanism having three or more degrees of freedom to move the carrying surface along three or more axes. The container handling mechanism may retrieve an item from a first target shelving unit using the carrying surface and the three or more degrees of freedom and place the item on a second target shelving unit. The automated guided vehicle may also include a power source coupled to provide power to the drive unit and the container handling mechanism.

Claim (Index 11):
A method comprising:\n navigating an automated guided vehicle (AGV) in an operating environment to a location proximate a storage shelving unit having a storage shelf supporting an item; extending a carrying surface of a container handling mechanism (CHM) of the AGV along a second axis relative to a forward direction of travel of the AGV, the CHM having three degrees of freedom corresponding to three axes of movement relative to a housing of the AGV, a first axis of the three axes extending along the forward direction of travel, the second axis of the three axes extending along a horizontal direction perpendicular to the first axis, and a third axis of the three axes extending along a vertical direction perpendicular to both the first axis and the second axis; lifting the carrying surface to lift the item along at least the third axis from the storage shelf, the carrying surface supporting the item; retracting the carrying surface along at least the second axis from the storage shelf; raising the carrying surface along at least the third axis to situate the item proximate to an AGV shelf included on the AGV; moving the carrying surface along at least the first axis until the item is positioned above the AGV shelf; and lowering the carrying surface along at least the third axis to place the item on the AGV shelf.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1791
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15863050', '15189239', '15325680', '15318082', '15222606']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.512402400425374
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5315182887716096
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5143139892599975
- Mean Citation Score: 230.502538
- Max Citation Score: 393.87234
- Similarity Product: 293.31312194545626

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

Dataset: test