PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980252
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["209", "599000"]

Abstract:
A tennis ball sorting apparatus tests the internal pressure of individual tennis balls and automatically separates a large number of tennis balls based on their internal pressure. Methods of using the same are further provided.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of testing and sorting balls comprising an internal pressure comprising the steps of:\n providing a ball sorting apparatus comprising a feeder for holding a plurality of balls and feeding each of the plurality of balls to a testing unit, wherein the testing unit tests the internal pressure of each ball as each ball is fed thereinto, and a separation unit, wherein the separation unit routes each ball into one of two or more paths based on the internal pressure of each ball; and feeding a plurality of balls into the feeder, wherein the feeder feeds a first ball into the testing unit wherein the testing unit tests the internal pressure of the first ball, and further wherein the separation unit feeds the first ball into the one of two or more paths based on the internal pressure of the first ball.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.32143
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15341501', '12657032', '11820423', '14726949', '15123598']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5756228546607431
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.487673744033144
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5668279435979833
- Mean Citation Score: 144.669558
- Max Citation Score: 150.29256
- Similarity Product: 97.95379831953048

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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