PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875974
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["700", "186000"]

Abstract:
A method and system are provided for automatically portioning workpieces, such as food products, by simulating portioning the workpieces in accordance with the one or more desired shapes of the final piece(s) as a directly controlled physical characteristic (parameter/specification) as well as one or more resulting indirectly controlled physical characteristics (parameters/specifications). The desired shape(s) of the final piece(s) are defined by a plurality of manipulatable reference coordinates. A workpiece is scanned to obtain scanning information, then portioning of the workpiece is simulated in accordance with the desired shape(s) of the final piece(s) defined by the directly controlled reference coordinates, thereby to determine the one or more indirectly controlled physical characteristics of the one or more final pieces to be portioned from the workpiece. The simulated portioning of the workpiece is performed for multiple combinations of directly controlled shapes as defined by the modified or edited reference coordinates and indirectly controlled physical characteristics until an acceptable set of a directly controlled shape and resulting one or more indirectly controlled physical characteristics is determined.

Claim (Index 9):
A system for automatically portioning a food product into one or more final pieces based on an adjustable two-dimensional reference shape and at least one additional physical criteria of the one or more final pieces, comprising:\n a cutter for portioning the food product; and a processor coupled to the cutter, the processor being associated with a memory and user interface system, and controlled by computer-executable instructions for performing the steps of:\n (a) permitting a user to enter, using the user interface system, an adjustable two-dimensional reference shape into which a food product is to be portioned, \n (b) permitting a user to optionally edit the user-entered, adjustable two-dimensional reference shape by manipulating an outline of the user-entered, adjustable two-dimensional reference shape as displayed on the user-interface system, \n the user permitted to use the user-interface system to alter the outline of the user-entered, adjustable two-dimensional reference shape thereby to change the shape of the two-dimensional reference shape, while shown on the user interface system,\n (c) recording the user entered and optionally user edited, the two-dimensional reference shape in the memory; \n (d) selecting at least one additional physical criteria for the one or more final pieces in addition to the adjustable two-dimensional reference shape used to portion the food product into one or more final pieces selected from the group consisting of: the weight of the final piece; the maximum weight of the final piece; the minimum weight of the final piece; the length of the final piece; the maximum length of the final piece; the minimum length of the final piece; the width of the final piece, the maximum width of the final piece; the minimum width of the final piece; the height of the final piece; the maximum height of the final piece, the minimum height of the final piece, the thickness of the final piece, the maximum thickness of the final piece; the minimum thickness of the final piece; \n (e) determining a cut path to portion the food product into one or more final pieces having the user entered two-dimensional reference shape as recorded in the memory and as optionally edited by the user and meeting the at least one additional selected physical criteria of the one or more final pieces in addition to the adjustable two-dimensional reference shape used to portion the food product; and \n (f) controlling the cutter to portion the food product according to the determined cut path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61842
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13571298', '12369674', '13358423', '13013771', '12369687']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4669947621809636
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5264367784944607
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4729389638123134
- Mean Citation Score: 335.1960160000001
- Max Citation Score: 364.9954
- Similarity Product: 347.048330578959

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

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