PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979519
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["700", "217000"]

Abstract:
An automated palletizer includes an automated package pick device capable of moving packages from a package deposit section to a pallet to form a pallet load from packages, a controller that is operably connected to the automated pick device, the controller having a pallet load generator configured to determine a pallet load structure of mixed packages, the pallet load generator being programmed so that it determines the load structure from mixed package layers overlaid over each other at least one of the mixed package layers being formed of stacks of mixed packages, top and bottom surfaces of the stacks corresponding to the at least one mixed package layer respectively forming top and bottom surfaces of the at least one mixed package layer that are substantially flat. The controller generates commands for the pick device to build the pallet load from the load structure determined by the pallet load generator.

Claim (Index 1):
A material handling system for handling and placing packages onto pallets, the system comprising:\n a storage array with storage space for holding packages therein; an automated package transport system communicably connected to the storage array for storing packages in and retrieving packages from the storage spaces of the storage array; an automated palletizer for placing packages onto a pallet to form a pallet load, the automated palletizer is communicably connected to the automated package transport system which provides individual packages from the storage array to the automated palletizer for forming the pallet load; and a controller operably connected to the automated palletizer and programmed with a pallet load generator configured so that the pallet load formed by the automated palletizer has more than one layer of stacked packages, wherein at least one layer of which includes packages of different heights, the at least one layer covers an area within bounds of a pallet frame of the pallet, the at least one layer having a flat upper surface between a top surface of the pallet load and a base surface upon which the at least one layer is seated, and comprises more than one stacks extending from the base surface to the upper surface independent of each other, at least one of the independent stacks being formed of packages having different heights; and at least one other layer of packages having different heights over the flat upper surface of the at least one layer, the at least one other layer of packages having a position or orientation selected based on a position of the more than one stacks in the at least one layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31343
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13654293', '14628978', '10836543', '15892127', '10370548']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.430477037900804
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6183076329655275
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4492600974072764
- Mean Citation Score: 333.9752620000001
- Max Citation Score: 524.81934
- Similarity Product: 516.1336088522888

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

Dataset: test