PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15765899
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["271", "031100"]

Abstract:
A mail singulator system determines a position of an optical panel to automatically adjust a loading conveyor speed to prevent stacked and overlapped mailpieces in the singulator and large gaps between mailpieces. The optical panel is configured between the front mailpiece of a mail stack on the loading conveyor and the optical sensor. The optical panel changes position with the pressure exerted by the mail stack and provides signals to the controller to adjust the conveyor speed. An optical sensor may detect a far threshold position or limit distance to increase the speed of the conveyor and may detect a near threshold position of limit distance to reduce the speed of the conveyor. The optical panel may have a low friction surface to allow the mail to slide into the conveyor and an optical surface to allow reliable optical sensor detection of the optical panel position.

Claim (Index 3):
The mail singulator system of  claim 1 , wherein when the optical panel moves within a near threshold position from the optical sensor the controller reduces the loading conveyor speed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35938
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12199961', '11291721', '13844290', '10359787', '12752805']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7712246224243532
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4961813913776547
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7437202993196833
- Mean Citation Score: 222.44744600000004
- Max Citation Score: 228.47423
- Similarity Product: 136.32413456566096

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

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