PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174882
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["452", "156000"]

Abstract:
A system for processing a suspended beef carcass as the carcass is moved along a defined path. A robotic arm is carried on a moveable table and has mounted thereon a servo motor-driven band saw capable of effecting a splitting operation on the beef carcass. The band saw is counterbalanced by a mass having a weight less than the weight of the band saw, and the robotic arm has a maximum load-carrying capacity less than the weight of the band saw. A torque monitor for the servo motor detects breaks in the band saw or breaks in the support for the band saw. A vision-based sensor system detects location of a tail bone on the beef carcass and identifies an age-indicating indicia. The system includes a controller in communication with the carcass rail, the carcass processing device and motor, and the vision-based sensor system.

Claim (Index 24):
A system for processing a suspended beef or other animal carcass as the carcass is moved along a defined path comprising:\n a carcass rail having a plurality of carcass trolleys spaced at desired intervals and movable along the carcass rail in a first direction, each carcass trolley capable of supporting a beef or other animal carcass; a saw rail having a saw trolley capable of supporting a carcass saw, the saw trolley being moveable along the saw rail in a second direction normal to the first direction; a carcass saw comprising a band saw driven by a servo motor and supported by the saw trolley, the band saw being counterbalanced on the saw trolley by a mass having a weight less than the weight of the band saw to permit movement of the saw by a force less than the weight of the saw; a robot-based carcass processing device having a robotic arm attached to the servo motor and band saw, the robot-based carcass processing device being disposed adjacent the carcass rail, the robotic arm having a maximum load-carrying capacity less than the weight of the band saw; a torque monitor for the servo motor; a vision-based sensor for detecting a location on a beef carcass as the beef carcass moves on the carcass rail to a position adjacent the robot-based carcass processing device, the location being expressed in coordinate data in Cartesian space (X, Y, Z locations); and a controller in communication with the carcass rail, the carcass processing device, the torque monitor and the vision-based sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 119.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18571
- Patent Class: 452.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15886323', '15663097', '14719862', '14412005', '10945760']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6659764924061308
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6266860793939728
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.662047451104915
- Mean Citation Score: 421.024316
- Max Citation Score: 616.33984
- Similarity Product: 578.146291517639

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

Dataset: test