PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15993283
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["198", "442000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for transforming a bulk flow of produce into a flow of produce aligned in one or more lines, to allow inspection for grading purposes at high speed, in particular by camera technology. The apparatus has a hopper which has differently configured opposing end portions arranged to allow the flow of produce from one end portion to the other, and wherein the exit end portion has at least one channel for guiding the produce therealong, wherein the at least one channel has a v-shaped cross-section defined by a pair of walls inclined upwardly away from each other so as to form a valley in which the produce is transportable by mechanical agitation into and along the valley such that the produce exits the hopper in one or more lines, one line from each of the at least one channel.

Claim (Index 5):
An apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the produce exiting the or each channel is adapted to be received on a respective conveyor for transportation to a grading system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0137
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10443124', '14563258', '13963475', '13086162', '12351496']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7229313264320516
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4699807541267419
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6976362692015207
- Mean Citation Score: 138.73726399999998
- Max Citation Score: 146.8856
- Similarity Product: 89.35901608772278

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