PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["198", "431000"]

Abstract:
A method and an apparatus are provided for the grouped arrangement, orientation and packaging of stacked food products like patty stacks. The method includes feeding a food product by a first feed belt in the direction of a first X-axis, and then ejecting the food product onto a second feed belt to form stacked food products. The method also includes transporting the stacked food products by the second feed belt along a Y-axis generally perpendicular to the X-axis and in the direction of an orientation mask which is arranged above the second feed belt. The stacked food products are oriented by contacting the orientation mask. The oriented food products may therefore be grouped together in oriented rows for packaging when further moved along the Y-axis by the second feed belt. The method and apparatus enable rapid orienting of various types of food products that are typically stacked and packaged.

Claim (Index 17):
The apparatus of  claim 7 , further comprising:\n an electronic control device which is designed and adapted to control drives of the first and second feed belts in such a way that a plurality of different groups of products can be formed on the second feed belt and transported into a packaging.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27536
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10075596', '11327836', '12606846', '12997379', '15668057']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7201593918593003
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4606658437073206
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6942100370441024
- Mean Citation Score: 182.504228
- Max Citation Score: 198.0593
- Similarity Product: 144.84443680630326

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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