PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16009838
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["198", "437000"]

Abstract:
A controller of a robotic material handling system performs a method that conveys articles from a pile within a confined space. One or more articles per operation are robotically moved onto a vertically-positionable nose conveyor surface conveys toward a narrower rearward conveyor. Controller detects a jammed article that is at least partially supported by the nose conveyor and that has failed to fully convey onto the rearward. The controller attempts to dislodge the jammed article by causing at least one of: (i) vertically repositioning the nose conveyor surface; and (ii) activating at least one of the two or more parallel conveyors of the nose conveyor surface to run in a forward direction. After the attempt to dislodge, the controller activates at least one parallel conveyor that is contact with the jammed article in a rearward direction.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein:\n dislodging the jammed article comprises activating at least one of the two or more parallel conveyors of the nose conveyor surface to run in the forward direction away from the rearward conveyor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87342
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15483151', '15375900', '15481969', '14471688', '14836216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7339530203161899
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5531132036196676
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7158690386465377
- Mean Citation Score: 306.96487399999995
- Max Citation Score: 495.915
- Similarity Product: 344.79703989923

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

Dataset: test