PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058578
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["700", "214000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for sorting or retrieving items to/from a plurality of destinations areas. The items are loaded onto one of a plurality of independently controlled delivery vehicles. The delivery vehicles follow a track that guides the delivery vehicles to/from the destination areas, which are positioned along the track. Once at the appropriate destination area, an item is transferred between the delivery vehicle and the destination area.

Claim (Index 1):
A material handling system, comprising:\n a plurality of storage locations; a plurality of totes, each storage location of the plurality of storage locations being dimensioned and arranged to a slideably receive a tote of the plurality of totes; a pick station; a track having track portions adjacent the storage locations and the pick stations; and a plurality of vehicles movable along the track portions to deliver totes from storage locations of the plurality of storage locations to the pick station to thereby enable an operator to retrieve one or more items from the totes, wherein each vehicle includes\n an onboard motor for driving the vehicle along the track to or from one of the storage locations, \n a drive element; and \n a transfer mechanism operative to transfer, onto the vehicle, a first tote disposed within a first storage location of the plurality of storage locations, the transfer mechanism comprising a displaceable element and a chain engageable with the drive element to drive the displaceable element in a first direction toward the first storage location and into engagement with the first tote prior to the transfer and to drive the displaceable element in a second direction away from the first storage location to thereby transfer the tote onto the vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65217
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15700663', '13859598', '15096433', '15784580', '15668380']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4652241435082092
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5193652684885463
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4706382560062429
- Mean Citation Score: 321.69124
- Max Citation Score: 356.43228
- Similarity Product: 285.9598736587286

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