PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982853
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["209", "576000"]

Abstract:
A method and system for sorting workpieces, such as chicken nuggets. The sorting system includes a conveyor system that advances in a forward direction and one or more blow off bars positioned over the conveyor system. The blow off bars extend along the forward advancing direction. The blow off bars include one or more valved nozzles connected to a pressurized source of a fluid, and the nozzles are positioned to discharge the fluid across the conveyor system.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising, for workpieces that do not get blown off after being subjected to a jet of fluid, catching the workpiece in a last one of a subset of chutes arranged to collect all the workpieces from a single lane division.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80435
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15197565', '13405154', '14161522', '10875743', '14376480']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5928925153101133
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5509059205912454
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5886938558382266
- Mean Citation Score: 221.32501
- Max Citation Score: 443.8495
- Similarity Product: 251.11499887764447

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

Dataset: test