PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16189673
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["053", "145000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of product handling systems facilitate transfer of individual product items from incoming bulk form into dedicated trays for inspection, sorting, selection, and packaging. Inspection may comprise interrogation of product items within a tray by electromagnetic (e.g., optical, hyperspectral) or other (e.g., physical, acoustic, gas sensing, etc.) techniques. Prior to packaging, product items disposed within the tray may be stored in a moveable carousel responsible for controlling environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, illumination, ambient gases, product-to-product interactions, and/or others. Movement of product items from a carousel's transfer station to an outside staging position may be accomplished using robots and/or conveyor belts. Embodiments may allow rapid, low-cost consumer selection of specific individual product items based upon their accompanying metadata (e.g., source, identifier), in combination with the results of inspection (e.g., visual appearance). Embodiments may receive product items pre-packaged in tray format to expedite inspection, sorting, selection, and packaging.

Claim (Index 3):
An apparatus as in  claim 2  wherein the conveyor comprises:\n a first conveyor belt configured to project through the first opening and contact the item at a first point; and \n a second conveyor belt configured to project through a second opening in the tray and contact the item at a second point.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81553
- Patent Class: 53.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15799750', '15143244', '12525107', '14869843', '11890297']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7535883568490881
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4547854385347848
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7237080650176578
- Mean Citation Score: 135.764434
- Max Citation Score: 141.45602
- Similarity Product: 110.58861776474237

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

Dataset: test