PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874828
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "232000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus may include a housing, a power-supply, a user-interface, a wrap-roller, a dispenser. In one embodiment, the apparatus is configured to roll an unwound hand-wrap after a workout. In another embodiment, a vending machine includes the housing, the power-supply, the user-interface, the wrap-roller, and the dispenser. In this embodiment, the housing includes a plurality of items that may aid in a users' workout and may selectively dispensed from the vending machine. The vending and use of the apparatus may be monetized for profit at sports-related establishments.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of using a vending machine, the method comprising the steps of:\n providing a vending machine including:\n a housing including an inner-chamber defined by at least four walls and a base, the inner-chamber having a plurality of compartments each configured to store at least one item therein; \n a power-supply fixed to the housing and configured to provide power to the vending machine; \n a user-interface fixed to the housing and electrically coupled to the power supply, the user-interface configured to allow for selection of at least one item by a user, and further configured to receive a non-adhesive wrap in an unwound state as manually fed in by a first end by the user; \n a wrap-roller disposed within the housing and electrically coupled to the power supply, the wrap-roller configured to receive the non-adhesive wrap in an unwound state by the first end from the user-interface, and further configured to wind the non-adhesive wrap about the first end until the non-adhesive wrap is placed in a wound state; and \n a dispenser fixed to the housing and configured to dispense at least one of the non-adhesive wrap in the wound state and a selected at least one item from the housing; \n selecting at least one item from the inner chamber via the user-interface; and retrieving the selected at least one item from the dispenser.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03922
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10256468', '14675435', '13404283', '14877798', '14274943']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3422170105858448
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4782462969518649
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3558199392224469
- Mean Citation Score: 121.3760818
- Max Citation Score: 125.85589
- Similarity Product: 80.97588386144162

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

Dataset: test