PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16009838
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["198", "437000"]

Abstract:
A controller of a robotic material handling system performs a method that conveys articles from a pile within a confined space. One or more articles per operation are robotically moved onto a vertically-positionable nose conveyor surface conveys toward a narrower rearward conveyor. Controller detects a jammed article that is at least partially supported by the nose conveyor and that has failed to fully convey onto the rearward. The controller attempts to dislodge the jammed article by causing at least one of: (i) vertically repositioning the nose conveyor surface; and (ii) activating at least one of the two or more parallel conveyors of the nose conveyor surface to run in a forward direction. After the attempt to dislodge, the controller activates at least one parallel conveyor that is contact with the jammed article in a rearward direction.

Claim (Index 13):
A controller of a robotic material handling system that conveys articles from an article pile, the controller comprising a computer-readable storage medium containing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the robotic material handling system to:\n position a nose conveyor surface of the robotic material handling system proximate to the article pile, the nose conveyor surface being vertically-movable and having two or more parallel conveyors that are distal to and feed a rearward conveyor, the rearward conveyor being laterally narrower than the nose conveyor surface; robotically move one or more articles onto the nose conveyor surface from the article pile; activate at least one of the two or more parallel conveyors of the nose conveyor surface to convey at least one article from the nose conveyor surface toward the rearward conveyor; detect a jammed article that is at least partially supported by the nose conveyor surface and that has failed to be fully conveyed onto the rearward conveyor by the at the least one of the two or more parallel conveyors; and dislodge the jammed article by causing at least one of: (i) vertically repositioning the nose conveyor surface; and (ii) activating the at least one of the two or more parallel conveyors of the nose conveyor surface to run in a forward direction; and activate at least one parallel conveyor that is in contact with the jammed article in a rearward direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87342
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15483151', '15375900', '15481969', '14471688', '14836216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7039613814364141
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5679741502857132
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6903626583213439
- Mean Citation Score: 306.96487399999995
- Max Citation Score: 495.915
- Similarity Product: 434.26915780842313

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