PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958842
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["341", "110000"]

Abstract:
Card processing mechanisms and methods whereby after a card has been processed on one surface thereof at a card processing station such as, but not limited to, a card printing mechanism, the card can be recirculated back upstream of the card processing station along a return card travel path that is separate from the primary card travel path through the card processing station where the card can then be reintroduced back into the primary card travel path and transported through the card processing station a second time. As the card is being returned along the return card travel path, the card can be flipped over so that when the card is transported back through the card processing station, the opposite surface of the card can be processed.

Claim (Index 18):
A card printing mechanism comprising:\n a card input end having a card input through which plastic cards can be input into the card printing mechanism; a primary card travel path extending from the card input along which the plastic cards can travel in a first direction after being input through the card input; a print station on the primary card travel path downstream from the card input that performs a printing operation on surfaces of the plastic cards on the primary card travel path, the print station includes at least one print head; a return card travel path, separate from the primary card travel path, along which the plastic cards can travel to be returned back to the primary card travel path at a position upstream of the print station, the return card travel path includes a portion that is substantially parallel to a portion of the primary card travel path having the print station, and the plastic cards travel in a second direction opposite the first direction when on the portion that is substantially parallel to the portion of the primary card travel path having the print station; and a card output end having a card output through which plastic cards can be output from the card printing mechanism.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23333
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15395309', '15915291', '15872395', '10800860', '15094462']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5545385012156335
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5215309120405904
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5512377422981293
- Mean Citation Score: 224.780736
- Max Citation Score: 318.12384
- Similarity Product: 259.0240290864944

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