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 1):
A ball sorting apparatus comprising:\n a feeder for holding a plurality of balls and feeding each of the plurality of balls to a testing unit, wherein the testing unit tests the internal pressure of each as each ball is fed thereinto; and a separation unit, wherein the separation unit routes the ball into one of two or more paths based on its 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): 0.5736878168176551
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4950705386973645
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.565826089005626
- Mean Citation Score: 144.669558
- Max Citation Score: 150.29256
- Similarity Product: 91.49510864991188

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

Dataset: test