PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049734
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["235", "375000"]

Abstract:
Various arrangements are presented for cleaning and sorting smartcards. An identifier present on the exterior of the smartcard may be scanned. A smartcard may be dispensed from an intake magazine that housing a plurality of smartcards. The smartcard may be moved along a cleaning assembly. The contacts of the smartcard may be cleaned. The contacts of the smartcard may be dried. After cleaning and drying the contacts of the smartcard, the smartcard may be sorted into either a cleaned output magazine or a cleaned rejection tray based on whether the scanning of the identifier was successfully performed.

Claim (Index 12):
The transaction card cleaning and sorting apparatus of  claim 1 , further comprising a cleaned reject tray, coupled with the housing, that receives and stores at least a second subset of the plurality of transaction cards received from the sorting assembly, wherein each transaction card of the at least the second subset of the plurality of transaction cards had its machine-readable identifier unsuccessfully scanned by the identifier scanner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94444
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15680479', '13447882', '12715320', '14588077', '11557212']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5026161019898274
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5895938403178952
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5113138758226342
- Mean Citation Score: 225.277006
- Max Citation Score: 515.2024
- Similarity Product: 468.3603967434883

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

Dataset: test