PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15963367
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["452", "008000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for deshelling shellfish, particularly lobsters, using a laser cutting system.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for deshelling shellfish, the method comprising the following steps:\n a) providing a conveyor system that automatically transports the shellfish from one station to a next station; b) transporting the shellfish through a butchering station that has a vision-guided butchering robot and a butchering block, wherein the butchering robot grips the shellfish and places the shellfish into the butchering block to break the shellfish into one or more severed parts, and then places the one or more severed parts back on the conveyor system; c) transporting the one or more severed parts through a cutting station that is equipped with a laser cutting system for cutting a shell on each of the one or more severed parts to obtain one or more cut shell parts; and d) transporting the one or more cut shell parts through an extraction station and extracting meat from the one or more cut shell parts to obtain extracted meat.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.0625
- Patent Class: 452.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15762783', '12523355', '15697550', '13804258', '11460688']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5626026554163999
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4713942562687001
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5534818155016299
- Mean Citation Score: 151.77936599999995
- Max Citation Score: 180.51215
- Similarity Product: 126.16531849303244

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

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