PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16210583
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["083", "409000"]

Abstract:
A food article slicing machine includes a food article loading apparatus with a lift tray assembly for moving food articles from a staging position to an elevated position at a beginning of a food article feed path, a food article feed apparatus disposed over the food article loading apparatus having an upper conveyor assembly with an independently driven endless conveyor belt used in cooperation with a food article gripper for moving the food articles along the food article feed path, a food article stop gate that forms part of the food article feed path and opens to drop food article end portions, and a slicing station at an end of the food article feed path with a knife for slicing the food articles.

Claim (Index 15):
The food article slicing machine of  claim 13 , wherein each of the conveyor belts is used in cooperation with the food article gripper for moving the food articles along the food article feed path when the gripper is in a closed position in which the gripper seizes a food article.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26786
- Patent Class: 83.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16017346', '12255649', '12255634', '12255655', '12255643']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8611662089904851
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6027224066752283
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8353218287589594
- Mean Citation Score: 527.678682
- Max Citation Score: 647.715
- Similarity Product: 453.9313360878825

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