PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015751
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["198", "419100"]

Abstract:
An article metering assembly for forming of an article group from a downstream most end portion of a bulk flow of conveyed articles is generally provided. The assembly, in one embodiment, is characterized by a robotic arm, a linkage assembly, and an end effector operatively united with the robotic arm and the linkage assembly such that the end effector is fixedly orientated relative to and overhead of the bulk flow of articles throughout a robotic arm motion cycle. Alternately, the assembly is characterized by a robotic arm in operative combination with an end effector, the end effector selectively oriented in relation to articles of a bulk flow of article during travel about its travel path in furtherance of forming an article group from above.

Claim (Index 34):
An article metering assembly for forming an article group from a downstream most end portion of a bulk flow of conveyed articles, said article metering assembly comprising a robotic arm, an end effector operatively united with said robotic arm, and a controller operatively linked to said robotic arm in furtherance of establishing a travel path for said end effector, said robotic arm including first and second arm segments and proximal, intermediate and distal arm joints, said first arm segment extending between said proximal arm joint and said distal arm joint, said second arm segment extending between said intermediate arm joint and said distal arm joint, the travel path including a travel path segment spaced apart from and substantially parallel with the downstream most end portion of the bulk flow of conveyed articles, said end effector travelable along said travel path segment substantially parallel with the downstream most end portion of the bulk flow such that an acceleration for said end effector substantially matches an acceleration of a formed article group during travel along an end portion of said travel path segment spaced apart from and substantially parallel with the downstream most end portion of the bulk flow of conveyed articles.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14516
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15130198', '14373187', '13734356', '14218862', '14114590']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6936746791907984
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5006866089166675
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6743758721633853
- Mean Citation Score: 240.532248
- Max Citation Score: 311.13727
- Similarity Product: 227.10818130544425

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

Dataset: test