PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16010192
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["047", "017000"]

Abstract:
A method of growing plants includes providing a plant growing apparatus that includes a vertical stack plant assembly including plant pot holders for pots, a movable light array adjustable to allow effective light for the plants, and an outer shell assembly including at least one of a wall, a floor, a ceiling creating a grow room. Potted plants are placed in the grow room, and light, water, and nutrients are provided to the plants, where the light is provided by the movable light array, water is provided by a watering system, and nutrients are provided by a nutrient delivery system. A plant growing apparatus includes a vertical stack plant assembly including plant pot holders for pots, a movable light array adjustable to allow effective light for the plants, and an outer shell assembly including at least one of a wall, a floor, and a ceiling creating a grow room.

Claim (Index 16):
A plant growing system, comprising:\n a vertical stack plant assembly, wherein the vertical stack plant assembly includes rows of plant pot holders for pots, said pots adapted to include grow medium and plants; a movable light array, wherein the position of the movable light array with respect to the plant pot holders is adjustable to allow light from the movable light array to be in position for growing plants in the plant pot holders of the vertical stack plant assembly, wherein the movable light array comprises:\n a light assembly including at least one grow light; \n a frame assembly including a frame, wherein the light assembly is mounted on the frame assembly, wherein the frame assembly includes a plurality of light assemblies, vertical members, and horizontal members, wherein the light assemblies are mounted on at least one of the horizontal members to create a horizontal pattern substantially parallel to the rows of the plant pot holders in the vertical stack plant assembly, the vertical members to create a vertical pattern substantially perpendicular to the rows of the plant pot holders in the vertical stack plant assembly, and combinations thereof; and \n a track assembly, wherein the track assembly includes a track that accepts a portion of the frame assembly and facilitates movement of the frame assembly toward or away from the vertical stack plant assembly; \n an outer shell assembly including at least one of a wall, a floor, a ceiling, and combinations thereof, thereby creating a plant space, wherein the plant space includes the vertical stack plant assembly and the movable light array, wherein the outer shell assembly comprises an internal surface exposed to the plant space and an external surface not exposed to the plant space, wherein the internal surface includes at least one of wall materials that reflect light, ceiling materials that reflect light, floor materials that reflect light, and combinations thereof; a nutrient delivery system for delivering nutrients to the plants, wherein the nutrient delivery system comprises:\n a nutrient delivery fluid; \n a canister in fluid communication with the nutrient delivery fluid; and \n a nutrient block inside of the canister, wherein the nutrient block includes a plurality of nutrient layers including a core portion and a shell layer, where the core portion and shell layer refer to relative locations of the layers along a cross-section of the block that is orthogonal to a longitudinal length of the block, and the core portion is an inner layer relative to the shell layer, nutrients are present in multiple layers surrounding a core portion of the nutrient block, wherein the outer layers of the nutrient block include nutrients that are beneficial to plants at a young age, the inner layers of the nutrient block include nutrients that are beneficial to plants at an older age, wherein upon exposure of the nutrient block to the nutrient delivery fluid, the shell layer of the nutrient block dissolves or erodes into the nutrient delivery fluid that carries the nutrients to the plants, thereby creating a new shell layer from the core portion; \n a watering system for watering the plants; a control system for controlling at least one of the environmental conditions inside the plant space, the movable light array, the nutrient delivery system, the watering system, and combinations thereof; and a monitoring system, wherein the monitoring system monitors the health of plants, the condition of grow medium, grow medium composition, and the environmental conditions and communicates with the control system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96429
- Patent Class: 47.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14131432', '11791851', '11073562', '14795023', '13719348']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6847824838679256
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5067345884386135
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6669776943249944
- Mean Citation Score: 232.646836
- Max Citation Score: 251.56628
- Similarity Product: 161.61347222969533

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