PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16009838
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["198", "437000"]

Abstract:
A controller of a robotic material handling system performs a method that conveys articles from a pile within a confined space. One or more articles per operation are robotically moved onto a vertically-positionable nose conveyor surface conveys toward a narrower rearward conveyor. Controller detects a jammed article that is at least partially supported by the nose conveyor and that has failed to fully convey onto the rearward. The controller attempts to dislodge the jammed article by causing at least one of: (i) vertically repositioning the nose conveyor surface; and (ii) activating at least one of the two or more parallel conveyors of the nose conveyor surface to run in a forward direction. After the attempt to dislodge, the controller activates at least one parallel conveyor that is contact with the jammed article in a rearward direction.

Claim (Index 9):
The robotic material handling system of  claim 8 , wherein the article detection system comprises:\n one or more sensors coupled respectively to one of the mobile body and the movable robotic manipulator to scan the nose conveyor surface; a scan processing subsystem in communication with the one or more sensors, the scan processing subsystem to detect presence and location of any articles based upon a received scan of the nose conveyor surface as compared to a baseline scan; and wherein the controller in communication with the scan processing subsystem detects the jammed article by:\n scanning, by the one or more sensors, the nose conveyor surface; \n identifying, by the scan processing subsystem, one or more articles that are present on the nose conveyor surface within respective zones of the two or more parallel conveyors by comparing the scanned nose conveyor surface to a baseline scan of an empty nose conveyor surface; \n tracking the at least one article within an identified zone of the at least one of two or more parallel conveyors of the nose conveyor surface; and \n based on tracking the at least one article, determining that the at least one article has become the jammed article by failing to be conveyed onto the rearward conveyor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87342
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15483151', '15375900', '15481969', '14471688', '14836216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7307885101090575
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5624493265601187
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7139545917541636
- Mean Citation Score: 306.96487399999995
- Max Citation Score: 495.915
- Similarity Product: 393.5082008680702

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

Dataset: test