PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16409572
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["128", "200230"]

Abstract:
A spacer may improve the effectiveness of medication delivery by an inhaler. The spacer may be configured to store the inhaler to improve compactness and/or portability of the spacer and inhaler. The inhaler may be coupled to a retaining device, inhaler container, and/or the like that restricts movement of the inhaler to predetermined positions and/or orientations. A user may be able to transition the inhaler between a stored position and an active position by moving the inhaler translationally and/or rotationally. The inhaler may be able to remain coupled to the retaining device and/or inhaler container, and the retaining device and/or inhaler container may be able to remain coupled to the spacer during transition from the stored position to the active position. The spacer may be sized to fit in a pants pocket in an embodiment.

Claim (Index 11):
The spacer apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the retaining device is configured to receive a canister containing pressurized medication or an inhaler actuator configured to disperse released medication and house the canister.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 128.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14776041', '14054638', '15644641', '10845411', '12484125']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.676176511532792
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.485905952970265
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6571494556765393
- Mean Citation Score: 176.83238799999995
- Max Citation Score: 272.2035
- Similarity Product: 245.5195123276412

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