PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16173322
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["198", "853000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for conveying an article in a conveying direction is provided. A conveyor includes a plurality of modular links and one or more removable connectors for interconnecting adjacent links of the plurality of modular links to form an endless chain for conveying the article in the conveying direction, at least one of the links comprising an upper link surface sloping in both the conveying direction and a transverse direction, thereby forming an apical region for contacting and supporting the article for conveyance along at least a forward run in the conveying direction.

Claim (Index 9):
The apparatus of  claim 8 , wherein the links include apical regions aligned in the transverse direction for contacting and supporting the article for conveyance along at least a forward run in the conveying direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86538
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15430979', '10672250', '12302080', '13957859', '13675563']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7561795252022687
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4961125462163654
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7301728273036784
- Mean Citation Score: 226.001378
- Max Citation Score: 318.17764
- Similarity Product: 245.20504888095385

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