PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860984
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["186", "068000"]

Abstract:
Described is a checkout station in a retail store that includes a bumper for preventing dividers from covering a belt end sensor. The belt end sensor senses when items on a checkout station conveyor belt have reached the end of the conveyor belt. If a divider stored on an edge wall alongside the conveyor belt covers the belt end sensor, the conveyor belt stops motion when it should keep moving. The checkout station includes a bumper that couples to the edge wall. The bumper prevents the dividers from covering the belt end sensor and interfering with the operation of the belt end sensor and the conveyor belt. The bumper includes a backbone and a hook coupled to the backbone. The hook couples the bumper to the edge wall. When the bumper is coupled to the edge wall, the bumper blocks dividers from covering the belt end sensor.

Claim (Index 1):
A checkout station bumper, the bumper comprising:\n a backbone, wherein the backbone is a rectangular shaped bar of rigid material comprising:\n a backbone top end; \n a backbone bottom end opposing the backbone top end; \n a first backbone side; \n a second backbone side; \n a backbone front surface; and \n a backbone rear surface; and \n a hook coupled to the backbone, wherein the hook comprises:\n a stem having a stem first end and a stem second end opposing the stem first end, wherein the stem first end is coupled to the backbone top end; and \n an end piece coupled to the stem second end, wherein the end piece is a rectangular shaped plate that extends perpendicular to the stem; \n wherein the bumper blocks a divider of a checkout station from activating a belt end sensor in response to the bumper being coupled to an edge wall of the checkout station.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75439
- Patent Class: 186.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14760937', '15622136', '14835145', '14372886', '13482736']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.591767537346813
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5691096602433208
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5895017496364638
- Mean Citation Score: 141.067942
- Max Citation Score: 147.81638999999996
- Similarity Product: 91.36433084199068

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

Dataset: test