PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981219
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["221", "001000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a pill dispensing apparatus that automatically dispenses pills to patients. Also provided is a method of automatically dispensing pills to patients.

Claim (Index 1):
A packaged pill dispensing apparatus comprising:\n at least one cartridge constructed and arranged to dispense individually packaged pills; a packaged pill dispenser constructed and arranged to removably receive at least one cartridge, the packaged pill dispenser having a pill collector constructed and arranged to collect individually packaged pills dispensed from the at least one cartridge; a low pill sensor constructed and arranged to sense a number of individually packaged pills remaining in the cartridge; a pill collector sensor constructed and arranged to signal when a patient has removed the individually packaged pill from the pill collector; and a controller constructed and arranged to control the rate and number of the individually packaged pills to be dispensed from the at least one cartridge to the pill collector, the controller comprising a timer having inputs for inputting the day and time of day for dispensing the individually packaged pills from the cartridge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.47059
- Patent Class: 221.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11661655', '11356764', '11741313', '13196222', '13455634']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7539459839168743
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5492546530221326
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7334768508274001
- Mean Citation Score: 279.484402
- Max Citation Score: 394.45718
- Similarity Product: 389.0821735129786

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

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