PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980252
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["209", "599000"]

Abstract:
A tennis ball sorting apparatus tests the internal pressure of individual tennis balls and automatically separates a large number of tennis balls based on their internal pressure. Methods of using the same are further provided.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 1  wherein the testing unit comprises a first surface and a second surface and a gauge interconnected with the first surface and further comprising the steps of:\n feeding the first ball between the first surface and the second surface wherein when the first ball is positioned between the first surface and the second surface, the gauge pushes the first surface against the first ball thereby applying a pressure to the first ball; \n measuring, via the gauge, a resistance of the ball in response to the pressure on the ball wherein the resistance of the ball corresponds to the ball's internal pressure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.32143
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15341501', '12657032', '11820423', '14726949', '15123598']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5727537357796884
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4986390539913879
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5653422676008583
- Mean Citation Score: 144.669558
- Max Citation Score: 150.29256
- Similarity Product: 88.37998899003982

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

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