PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16072288
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "039000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus is provided for controlling a liquid electrophotography printer (LEP). The LEP may include a plurality of ink developers, IDs, to transfer charged ink to a photoreceptor, by virtue of a potential difference between the engaged ID and the photoreceptor selectively dischargeable to allow an image to be formed on a print medium in use through printing a spread of plural colour separations thereon each corresponding to ink from one of a plurality of engaged IDs. the apparatus may comprise a print controller to, in use monitor an order of colour separations to be printed onto the print medium. The print controller may also detect in the order of colour separations an empty separation of an ID followed by a printing separation of the same ID, an empty separation representing a separation in which no image is formed on the photoreceptor and the engaged ID is at a voltage different to the voltage of the ID for a printing separation so as to, in the empty separation, substantially wet the photoreceptor and substantially not transfer ink thereto. The print controller may also, in response to the detection, replace in the order of the colour separations the ID for the empty separation with a different ID.

Claim (Index 7):
The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein the empty separation is a post-empty separation performed at the end of the spread;\n wherein the colour separation at the beginning of the subsequent spread is considered when selecting an ID to use in the empty separation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55172
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15500336', '12827168', '15320385', '15320391', '12827178']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.816188472383509
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4835384278143602
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7829234679265942
- Mean Citation Score: 185.690112
- Max Citation Score: 225.17024
- Similarity Product: 162.64780417652133

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

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