PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914333
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "010030"]

Abstract:
Embodiments are directed at a systems, methods, and apparatuses for automatically aligning the lead edges of a document stack loaded in a scanner system. An automated jogger system includes feeder gate elements which are driven forward and backwards in an oscillating motion. This motion causes the documents in the stack to slide between each other, causing the documents to move and rotate towards the feeder gate elements, aligning the lead edges of the stack prior to being fed into the document scanner.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of aligning documents for a scanning device, the method comprising:\n determining documents are present in an input tray of the scanning device, the leading edges of the documents being engaged with at least one feeder gate element of the scanning device in a blocking position; oscillating the at least one feeder gate element forward and backward in respect to a document transport path of the scanning device according to one or more oscillation parameters to align the lead edges of the documents; retracting the at least one feeder gate element to a retracted position to clear the document transport path; separating a document from the documents in the input tray of the scanning device; and transporting the separated document along the document transport path within the scanning device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64815
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10143276', '13094218', '13094200', '12276641', '14579541']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7071279596216768
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4715139378051657
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6835665574400258
- Mean Citation Score: 196.409484
- Max Citation Score: 202.5612
- Similarity Product: 159.19703595836162

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test