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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1-3 and 5-15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Makhal U.S. Patent No. 11,685,605.
Claim 1, Makhal teaches method for determining motion profile data via 306 for a transport system 3041 Abstract, the method comprising: determining first motion profile data via 306 based on a machine learning method via 102, wherein the first motion profile data via 306 comprises information on a first segment of transport 3041; and determining second motion profile data via 306 based on a movement of a further transport system 304m, wherein the second motion profile data via 306 comprises information on a second segment of transport 304m C13 L40-65 Fig. 4.
Claim 2, Makhal teaches the second motion profile data via 306 is determined so that the transport system 3041 moves in line with the further transport system 304m C13 L40-65 Fig. 4.
Claim 3, Makhal teaches the second motion profile data via 306 is determined so that a handover of an item carried by the further transport system 304m is provided to the transport system 3041.
Claim 5, Makhal teaches the first motion profile data via 306 and/or the second motion profile data via 306 is defined using an array of positions of 304 C13 L40-65.
Claim 6, Makhal teaches the first motion profile data via 306 is determined based on minimizing a time C3 L45-67.
Claim 7, Makhal teaches the first motion profile data via 306 is determined based on minimizing an energy consumption C3 L45-67.
Claim 8, Makhal teaches the first motion profile data via 306 is determined based on minimizing slosh of a liquid provided in a container to be transported by the transport system C3 L45-67.
Claim 9, Makhal teaches the first motion profile data via 306 provides at least one of an acceleration, a deceleration, or a return to a pre-determined position C4 L1-25.
Claim 10, Makhal teaches the further transport system 304m is configured to move a tool 308 to manipulate an item 310 carried by the transport system 3041.
Claim 11, Makhal teaches the tool 308 comprises at least one of a printer, a knife, or a tool to add a further item to the item C3 L40-67.
Claim 12, Makhal teaches non-transitory computer-readable medium 102 comprising instructions which, when executed by a computing system 110, make the computing system 110 carry out a method for determining motion profile data via 306 for a transport system 3041, the method comprising: determining first motion profile data via 306 based on a machine learning method of 102, wherein the first motion profile data via 306 comprises information on a first segment of transport 3041; and determining second motion profile data via 306 based on a movement of a further transport system 304m, wherein the second motion profile data via 306 comprises information on a second segment of transport 304m C13 L40-65 Fig. 4.
Claim 13, Makhal teaches data processing apparatus 100 configured to carry out a method for determining motion profile data via 306 for a transport system 3041, the method comprising: determining first motion profile data via 306 based on a machine learning method via 102, wherein the first motion profile data via 306 comprises information on a first segment of transport 3041; and determining second motion profile data via 306 based on a movement of a further transport system 304m, wherein the second motion profile data via 306 comprises information on a second segment of transport 304m C13 L40-65 Fig. 4.
Claim 14, Makhal teaches transport system 3041, comprising a control unit 100 configured to determine a motion profile data via 306 for the control system 100 based on a method for determining motion profile data via 306 for a transport system 3041, the method comprising: determining first motion profile data via 306 based on a machine learning method via 102, wherein the first motion profile data via 306 comprises information on a first segment of transport 3041; and determining second motion profile data via 306 based on a movement of a further transport system 304m, wherein the second motion profile data via 306 comprises information on a second segment of transport 304m C13 L40-65 Fig. 4
Claim 15, Makhal teaches the transport system 3041 is configured as a multicarrier system 304m.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 4 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Makhal U.S. Patent No. 11,685,605 in view of MORIELLO, Lorenzo et al., "Control of Liquid Handling Robotic Systems: A Feed-Forward Approach to Suppress Sloshing", 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 29, 2017, pages 4286-4291.
Claim 4, Makhal does not teach as Moriello teaches the first motion profile data and/or the second motion profile data is defined using a spline Abstract. It would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art to combine the transport disclosed in Makhal with the additional control configuration for transporting liquids slosh-free taught in Moriello with a reasonable expectation of success because
Conclusion
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