PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860984
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["186", "068000"]

Abstract:
Described is a checkout station in a retail store that includes a bumper for preventing dividers from covering a belt end sensor. The belt end sensor senses when items on a checkout station conveyor belt have reached the end of the conveyor belt. If a divider stored on an edge wall alongside the conveyor belt covers the belt end sensor, the conveyor belt stops motion when it should keep moving. The checkout station includes a bumper that couples to the edge wall. The bumper prevents the dividers from covering the belt end sensor and interfering with the operation of the belt end sensor and the conveyor belt. The bumper includes a backbone and a hook coupled to the backbone. The hook couples the bumper to the edge wall. When the bumper is coupled to the edge wall, the bumper blocks dividers from covering the belt end sensor.

Claim (Index 12):
A checkout station in a retail store comprising:\n a conveyor belt with a conveyor belt end adjacent a scan area, wherein the conveyor belt moves an item to be purchased towards the scan area; a belt end sensor that senses when the item to be purchased reaches the conveyor belt end of the conveyor belt; an edge wall positioned adjacent the conveyor belt; a divider that sits on the edge wall; and a bumper that couples to the edge wall, wherein the bumper prevents the divider from covering the belt end sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75439
- Patent Class: 186.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14760937', '15622136', '14835145', '14372886', '13482736']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5939343795871144
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5608807231854357
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5906290139469466
- Mean Citation Score: 141.067942
- Max Citation Score: 147.81638999999996
- Similarity Product: 98.47120591082628

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

Dataset: test