PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16139212
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["053", "398000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for coupling one or more can carriers to a plurality of cans is disclosed herein. The apparatus may include rails for guiding the cans as the cans move through the apparatus. Push members may be moved into the space between the rails to push the cans through the apparatus towards a member and at least one roller. The member (e.g., a hopper) may position a can carrier above the cans. The at least one roller may be positioned to provide a downward force on the can carrier to attach the can carrier to the top of the cans as the cans are moved past the at least one roller by the push members.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 12 , further comprising\n after the selected number of cans moves past a position of the stop members along the path between the rails, moving the stop members into the space between the pair of rails; stopping the cans using the stop members; after the selected number of cans are stopped against the stop members, moving the push members into the space between the pair of rails behind the selected number of cans along the path between the rails; removing the stop members from the space between the pair of rails; moving the push members along the path between the rails to push the selected number of cans along the path between the rails; and positioning an additional can carrier above the cans with the member; and attaching the additional can carrier to the selected number of cans.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08475
- Patent Class: 53.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16139223', '13415668', '11126150', '11300371', '10838831']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7186260983892612
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5342022419091425
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7001837127412494
- Mean Citation Score: 196.924098
- Max Citation Score: 393.46265
- Similarity Product: 264.2664889049709

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

Dataset: test