PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15777055
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["198", "836400"]

Abstract:
A modular conveyor belt constructed of a series of conveyor belt modules, some of which include retainers for removably retaining plates, such as cutting boards, to the outer surface of the belt. The longitudinal extent of each of the retained plates in the direction of belt travel exceeds the articulation pitch of the conveyor belt.

Claim (Index 30):
A modular conveyor belt comprising:\n a series of rows of belt modules joined end to end at hinge joints between consecutive rows and forming an outer belt surface, wherein the distance in a direction of belt travel between consecutive hinge joints defines the belt pitch; a retainer on some of the rows; a plurality of plates, each plate retained by the retainer on a separate one of the rows; wherein the plates have a length in the direction of belt travel that is greater than the belt pitch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57895
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16070728', '14819137', '11306554', '13113538', '11160224']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7247876341258518
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4530812575622983
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6976169964694965
- Mean Citation Score: 203.543698
- Max Citation Score: 210.98346
- Similarity Product: 176.2549003032875

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