PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16068948
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["426", "485000"]

Abstract:
A method for pitting and re-pitting fruit halves, in particular peach halves, has steps of lifting fruit halves from a loading area to a feeding zone, feeding the fruit halves to an advancing lane, moving the fruit halves forward, detecting the supporting condition of each fruit half and a presence of pit or pit fragments, if any, assessing the supporting condition as correct or incorrect, communicating the presence of pit or pit fragments, if any, in the fruit half, pit removing, if any, delivering the fruit halves to their further treatment or bringing them back to the step of lifting the fruit halves, in case their supporting condition is assessed as incorrect. There is disclosed a multi-lane machine having a detecting station ( 9 ), a control unit ( 10 ), communication means for sending information to a cutting station ( 8 ) and to a separating station ( 13 ) for delivering the fruit halves to their further treatment or to the loading area of the machine.

Claim (Index 6):
The machine according to  claim 2 , wherein said conveying means for the return to the loading tank of the fruit halves are constituted by a recycling belt conveyor ( 19 ) located below the fruit holding flight conveyor ( 4 ).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38462
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16078175', '15125466', '12886759', '14232380', '10842792']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7283305151447805
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5342151694851183
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7089189805788143
- Mean Citation Score: 257.68531
- Max Citation Score: 322.0643
- Similarity Product: 189.28671359800097

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