PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049734
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["235", "375000"]

Abstract:
Various arrangements are presented for cleaning and sorting smartcards. An identifier present on the exterior of the smartcard may be scanned. A smartcard may be dispensed from an intake magazine that housing a plurality of smartcards. The smartcard may be moved along a cleaning assembly. The contacts of the smartcard may be cleaned. The contacts of the smartcard may be dried. After cleaning and drying the contacts of the smartcard, the smartcard may be sorted into either a cleaned output magazine or a cleaned rejection tray based on whether the scanning of the identifier was successfully performed.

Claim (Index 13):
A method for cleaning and sorting transaction cards, the method comprising:\n scanning an identifier present on the exterior of a transaction card, wherein the identifier is a machine-readable code; dispensing the transaction card from an intake magazine that houses a plurality of transaction cards; after dispensing the transaction card, moving the transaction card along a cleaning assembly; cleaning the transaction card by a cleaning assembly; and after cleaning the transaction card, sorting the transaction card into either a cleaned output magazine or a cleaned rejection tray based on whether the scanning of the identifier was successfully performed prior to moving the transaction card along the cleaning assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94444
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15680479', '13447882', '12715320', '14588077', '11557212']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5052150561002715
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5834865026676782
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5130422007570121
- Mean Citation Score: 225.277006
- Max Citation Score: 515.2024
- Similarity Product: 439.2221868951797

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