PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971142
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["356", "601000"]

Abstract:
A system for duplicating a master key includes a mechanism for receiving and positioning a master key. The master key defines a major key axis and an intermediate key axis along which a key blade variably extends, and a minor key axis along a key thickness. Optical path components direct a light beam along the minor key axis. The light beam impinges upon the key blade. A portion of the light beam traverses the key blade. A detector receives the portion of the light beam that traverses the key blade. An apparatus imparts relative motion along the major key axis between the light beam and the master key. The light beam scans along the major key axis of the master key. A processor receives a signal from the detector as the beam scans along the major key axis and generates information usable for defining the machining of a duplicate key.

Claim (Index 5):
A method for duplicating a master key comprising:\n receiving and positioning a master key, wherein the master key defines a major key axis, an intermediate axis along which a key blade variably extends, and a minor key axis along a key thickness; generating a light beam and directing the light beam along the minor key axis; imparting relative motion along the major key axis between the light beam and the master key such that the light beam scans along the major key axis; determining bitting information for the master key based on a detection of at least a portion of the light beam; and capturing an image of the distal end of the master key, wherein the image is usable for identifying a proper key blank for duplicating the master key

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71186
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15728074', '15191071', '15191101', '11998101', '12772763']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7306328925545127
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5582415492826862
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7133937582273301
- Mean Citation Score: 297.68631
- Max Citation Score: 427.88022
- Similarity Product: 413.55140313768624

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