PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16441621
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["340", "568200"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for monitoring a status of a plurality of a merchandise display devices for displaying items of merchandise at respective display positions. For example, the method includes monitoring for a change in a preselected characteristic of a circuit defined by an electrical connection between the security devices and a plurality of nodes and between the nodes and an alarm unit. The method also includes determining whether an item of merchandise has been added to or removed from a respective display position based on a change in the preselected characteristic.

Claim (Index 3):
The merchandise security system of  claim 2 , wherein the alarm unit is configured to determine an initial tare value of the total resistance of the circuit and to detect changes in the initial tare value of the total resistance of the circuit when an item of merchandise is added to or removed from a respective display position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74576
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14625982', '13565432', '12839500', '15326813', '13474862']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6840579917901738
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4757362243481233
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6632258150459688
- Mean Citation Score: 163.01064000000005
- Max Citation Score: 171.66135
- Similarity Product: 138.92861126409173

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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