PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16355213
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["198", "432000"]

Abstract:
A conveyor belt system for forming a predetermined arrangement of a plurality of products (provided to the conveyor individually or in respective groups) that are intended for an infeed process on a packaging machine. The plurality of products may be oriented in a row transversely to the conveying direction. The conveyor belt system may include a distributing belt module that takes up products from an upstream positioned product provider, a buffer belt module arranged downstream of the distributing belt module and configured to convey in a plurality of tracks extending side by side along the conveying direction a respective plurality of products one after the other, and an orienting belt module that can position the products in at least one row transversely oriented to the conveying direction according to the predetermined arrangement, the orienting belt module being positioned downstream of the buffer belt module in the conveying direction.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of forming a predetermined arrangement from products provided individually or in groups, the method comprising:\n determining a predetermined arrangement of a plurality of products for an infeed process of a packaging machine; conveying the plurality of products along a first conveying section, where the plurality of products are distributed to a plurality of pre-determined tracks extending in the conveying direction; conveying the plurality of products along a second conveying section in a plurality of initial formations that are arranged in a similar manner one after the other in the conveying direction, wherein the plurality of products are intended for a row that is oriented transverse to the conveying direction and the row comprises at least a part of the predetermined arrangement; conveying the plurality of products along a third conveying section, the plurality of products provided according to at least one of the plurality of initial formations; and accelerating the conveyance of one or more of the plurality of products relative to one or more of the other products in the plurality of the products on the third conveying system to position each of the plurality of products in at least one row according to the predetermined arrangement, the row being oriented transversely to the conveying direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16667
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13186693', '13906022', '14133508', '14876093', '13254276']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7316205784361619
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.475719040868735
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7060304246794192
- Mean Citation Score: 222.498498
- Max Citation Score: 243.2286
- Similarity Product: 172.55477698076962

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

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