PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974230
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["347", "102000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods where a delay time between a first card processing mechanism, such as a drop-on-demand printer that prints with UV curable ink, and a second card processing mechanism, such as a UV curing station, can be altered to adjust the travel time of the card from the first card processing mechanism to the second card processing mechanism. First and second card buffers can be provided between the first card processing mechanism and the second card processing mechanism. Each of the first and second card buffers is independently logically controlled to permit independent control of the transport time of a card through each card buffer. Alternatively, a single card buffer or more than two card buffers can be provided between the first card processing mechanism and the second card processing mechanism.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of printing on a plastic card, comprising:\n inputting the plastic card into a drop-on-demand printer that is configured to print with ultra-violet (UV) curable ink; printing UV curable ink onto a surface of the plastic card using a printhead of the drop-on-demand printer; after printing, mechanically transporting the plastic card into a card buffer and while the plastic card is in the card buffer delaying further transport of the plastic card for a predetermined time period; after the predetermined time period has expired, mechanically transporting the plastic card from the card buffer into a UV curing station.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47368
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15958842', '15974169', '15395309', '15915291', '14196554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7490408420721205
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5055936601353976
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7246961238784482
- Mean Citation Score: 220.508506
- Max Citation Score: 248.78783
- Similarity Product: 148.88047925593852

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

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