PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16160558
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["294", "086400"]

Abstract:
Robotic grippers have been employed to grasp and manipulate target objects. One task posing relatively unique problems is the handling of meat products, which can be difficult to grasp with a conventional gripper due to the surface texture and malleability of the meat, among other factors. This is particularly problematic when the meat product includes a bone, which has different properties from the relatively malleable meat surrounding it. Exemplary embodiments described herein provide robotic grippers having one or more fingers and a layered plate. The layered structure defines grooves sized and configured to lead in and capture the bone structure of the meat product. The grooves provide a backstop for the meat as well as preventing rotation or translation of the bone structure, thus allowing a firm grasp to be secured on the meat product.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 11 , further comprising positioning the robotic end effector so that an angled bone of the meat product aligns with the angled groove of the bumper plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64773
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15967210', '16160580', '16160604', '15180653', '15411212']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6974363925596984
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4989575291852447
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.677588506222253
- Mean Citation Score: 131.20241099999998
- Max Citation Score: 143.46255
- Similarity Product: 89.7025905065596

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

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