PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989039
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "151000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of a system and method for shingulating, singulating, and synchronizing articles in an article feeder system are disclosed. The article feeder system may include a shingulating device configured to receive a stack of articles and to produce a positively lapped stack of articles, a plurality of picking devices configured to pick one or more articles from the positively lapped stack of articles and to produce one or more singulated articles, and one or more synchronization devices configured to deliver the one or more singulated articles to one or more sorter windows.

Claim (Index 2):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein the picking device is configured to:\n pick an article from the positively lapped stack of articles, including opening the vacuum valve and exposing the vacuum manifold to the suction from the vacuum unit, the vacuum manifold applying the suction through the one or more openings in the perforated belt to attach the article to the perforated belt; and produce a singulated article, including separating the article from the positively lapped stack of articles by driving the perforated belt with the attached article forward using the motor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22727
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13827122', '14742480', '13797291', '15668238', '15154603']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7831928619480372
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6172881711527112
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7666023928685046
- Mean Citation Score: 348.175776
- Max Citation Score: 564.7057
- Similarity Product: 557.9367238425255

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

Dataset: test