PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16118552
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["112", "080230"]

Abstract:
A stitch distribution control system for a tufting machine for controlling placement of yarns being fed to the needles of the tufting machine by yarn feed mechanisms to form a desired pattern. A backing material is fed through the tufting machine at an increased stitch rate as the needles are shifted according to calculated pattern steps. A series of loopers or hooks engage and pick loops of yarns from the needles. The yarn feed mechanisms further can be controlled so that selected loops of yarns can be back-robbed so as to be hidden from view in the finished patterned tufted article.

Claim (Index 6):
A method of forming tufted articles having a pattern including tufts of a number of different color yarns arranged at a desired stitch rate, the method comprising:\n feeding a backing material along a path of travel; feeding a series of yarns to a plurality of needles; reciprocating the needles into and out of the backing material as the backing material is fed along its path of travel; with the needles penetrating the backing material, engaging the needles with a series of gauge parts so as to pick loops of yarn therefrom; while at least a portion of the pattern being formed, feeding of the backing material at an effective process stitch rate determined by increasing the desired stitch rate of the pattern approximately by the number of different colors of yarns of the pattern, and controlling shifting of the needles or the backing material so as to present a series of different color yarns to a series of stitch locations for the portion of the pattern being formed and controlling feeding of the yarns to maintain a selected yarn or yarns of the series of different color yarns presented at the series of stitch locations.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.61538
- Patent Class: 112.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15185680', '12495016', '15594950', '13740495', '14930769']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8005059916398721
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6978337529188224
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7902387677677672
- Mean Citation Score: 685.5247899999998
- Max Citation Score: 716.5576
- Similarity Product: 662.437846325493

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

Dataset: test