PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015751
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["198", "419100"]

Abstract:
An article metering assembly for forming of an article group from a downstream most end portion of a bulk flow of conveyed articles is generally provided. The assembly, in one embodiment, is characterized by a robotic arm, a linkage assembly, and an end effector operatively united with the robotic arm and the linkage assembly such that the end effector is fixedly orientated relative to and overhead of the bulk flow of articles throughout a robotic arm motion cycle. Alternately, the assembly is characterized by a robotic arm in operative combination with an end effector, the end effector selectively oriented in relation to articles of a bulk flow of article during travel about its travel path in furtherance of forming an article group from above.

Claim (Index 33):
An article metering apparatus for forming an article group from a downstream most end portion of a bulk flow of conveyed articles comprising synchronously operated article metering assemblies, each article metering assembly of said article metering assemblies comprising:\n a. a robotic arm characterized by a pivoting upper arm segment, a pivoting lower arm segment, and a joint uniting the arm segments, said pivoting upper arm segment depending from a support member; b. a linkage assembly characterized by an upper link, a central link, and a lower link portion, said central link supported by said robotic arm at said joint, said upper link pivotingly extending, in a spaced apart parallel condition relative to said pivoting upper arm segment, between said support member and said central link; and, c. an insertion tool operatively supported by said robotic arm and operatively united to said lower link portion of said link assembly, said insertion tool having a fixed orientation relative to articles of the bulk flow of conveyed articles during operation of said robotic arm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14516
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15130198', '14373187', '13734356', '14218862', '14114590']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6937831181614281
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4995914569968077
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.674363952044966
- Mean Citation Score: 240.532248
- Max Citation Score: 311.13727
- Similarity Product: 234.32501908985137

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