PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933874
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["271", "265020"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for detecting the presence of metallic objects in media to be conveyed in a medium transport system are disclosed. One or more induction sensors are included in the medium transport system to detect the presence of metal in the transported media, with detection signals sent from the sensors to a system processing unit. An ultrasonic detector is employed in some embodiments to output another detection signal. One or more microphones may also be included, for detecting the sound created as the medium is being transported. The system processing unit analyzes various detection signals and analyzes computed sound values from the microphones, to determine the presence and location of metal in the media. A position jam detector may assist in determining jams of the media along the medium transport path.

Claim (Index 8):
A system for detecting metallic objects in media to be input into a media transport system, comprising:\n an input tray configured to hold the media to be fed into the media transport system; one or more rollers configured to convey the media from the input tray and along a medium transport path, the one or more rollers driven by one or more motors; a plurality of induction sensors positioned proximate to the medium transport path, wherein the induction sensors have differing sensitivities for detecting a presence of metallic material and the induction sensors are configured to output a metallic detection signal; and a processing unit in communication with the induction sensors, the processing unit configured to receive the metallic detection signal and determine whether the media contains a metallic object, and the processing unit further configured to determine the location of the metallic object on the media, based on the metallic detection signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98592
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14586300', '15439665', '15192221', '15192208', '14982718']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7919818121015127
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5522222991871328
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7680058608100748
- Mean Citation Score: 367.129772
- Max Citation Score: 400.88226
- Similarity Product: 384.8514053647148

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

Dataset: test