PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16160558
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["294", "086400"]

Abstract:
Robotic grippers have been employed to grasp and manipulate target objects. One task posing relatively unique problems is the handling of meat products, which can be difficult to grasp with a conventional gripper due to the surface texture and malleability of the meat, among other factors. This is particularly problematic when the meat product includes a bone, which has different properties from the relatively malleable meat surrounding it. Exemplary embodiments described herein provide robotic grippers having one or more fingers and a layered plate. The layered structure defines grooves sized and configured to lead in and capture the bone structure of the meat product. The grooves provide a backstop for the meat as well as preventing rotation or translation of the bone structure, thus allowing a firm grasp to be secured on the meat product.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 11 , further comprising translating or rotating the robotic end effector while grasping the meat product, the translating or rotating pushing the bone into an edge of the central groove or the angled groove of the bumper plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64773
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15967210', '16160580', '16160604', '15180653', '15411212']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6984433730904968
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.494521689904872
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6780512047719343
- Mean Citation Score: 131.20241099999998
- Max Citation Score: 143.46255
- Similarity Product: 93.2883128347814

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

Dataset: test