PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16133683
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["206", "019000"]

Abstract:
The present invention solves the problem of possible contamination of unconsumed liquid contained by communion cups that remain in the circular apertures of the cup array of the tray cover. The problem has been solved by moving the empty cup disposal openings from their current central locations in the tray cover to the four corners thereof. The new configuration makes it awkward for a congregant to dispose of his cup by reaching over cups containing unconsumed liquid. Although the improved tray cover is configured to hold 34 cups rather than 36, the loss of capacity of 2 cups is considered to be an acceptable compromise for decreasing the spread of disease causing organisms.

Claim (Index 14):
A liquid distribution communion tray assembly comprising:\n a tray bottom having a floor and an upwardly-extending perimetric wall and a perimetric edge atop the perimetric wall; and a generally rectangular tray cover that covers the perimetric edge, said tray cover having a plurality of cup-retaining apertures for receiving a plurality of liquid filled miniature drinking cups, said cup-retaining apertures sized so that a miniature drinking cup cannot pass through any one of them, an empty cup disposal opening at each corner of the tray cover through which empty drinking cups can be dropped into a cup-disposal space defined by inner surfaces of the tray bottom and a lower surface of the tray cover.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53247
- Patent Class: 206.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15413597', '13563878', '10757136', '13839990', '11135989']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7224372307671467
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5541547887253726
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7056089865629693
- Mean Citation Score: 186.292944
- Max Citation Score: 416.22147
- Similarity Product: 361.0016962094378

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

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