PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980252
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["209", "599000"]

Abstract:
A tennis ball sorting apparatus tests the internal pressure of individual tennis balls and automatically separates a large number of tennis balls based on their internal pressure. Methods of using the same are further provided.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 12  wherein the feeder comprises a screw, wherein the screw has a thread and pitch, wherein the thread and pitch of the screw are sized to hold the ball therein, and further wherein the screw moves the first ball out of the feeder.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.32143
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15341501', '12657032', '11820423', '14726949', '15123598']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5988903363810305
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5113418442235079
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5901354871652782
- Mean Citation Score: 144.669558
- Max Citation Score: 150.29256
- Similarity Product: 79.29584921685219

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

Dataset: test