PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16053213
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["294", "185000"]

Abstract:
Robotic grippers have been employed to grasp and manipulate target objects. One task posing relatively unique problems is the handling of meat products, which can be difficult to grasp with a conventional gripper due to the surface texture and malleability of the meat, among other factors. Exemplary embodiments described herein provide robotic grippers having one or more fingers and a plate, the plate optionally providing suction capabilities. The actuators apply a small force to the edges of the grasping target. In suctioned embodiments, an array of suction holes within the plate support the center of the grasping target by applying a light vacuum force at many points along the surface thereof In non-suctioned embodiments, the actuators grip the edges of the grasping target and the plate makes conformal contact with the grasping target to prevent it from folding or otherwise deforming or disintegrating from the gripping force of the actuators.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 11 , further comprising detecting a that the target object has been secured to the vacuum pad by determining that a fluid flow through the holes has been reduced or stopped, and actuating the actuator in response to the detecting.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72043
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15411212', '15194283', '15137356', '15605499', '15482050']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7433082270494104
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4909580587122735
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7180732102156966
- Mean Citation Score: 193.7393
- Max Citation Score: 211.15878
- Similarity Product: 135.79186156034228

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

Dataset: test