PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917246
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["209", "583000"]

Abstract:
A sorter including a conveying system to transport items to be sorted. A plurality of lanes are configured to accept the items from the conveying system. A scanner reads information about the items to be sorted. The information including a destination for the item. A controller is in communication with the scanner to receive the destination for the items being sorted and is adapted to open and close selected ones of the plurality of lanes to receive items.

Claim (Index 3):
The sorter of  claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to:\n determine that none of the potential lanes is currently assigned to the destination for the item being sorted; determine that all of the plurality of lanes have an assigned destination; and assign the destination corresponding to the item being sorted to the lane with the minimum number of items on it.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02439
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15727866', '14941373', '14198013', '15224913', '10980584']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6621446967300673
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4752396849813605
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6434541955551966
- Mean Citation Score: 171.12558
- Max Citation Score: 203.20496
- Similarity Product: 163.12251343276978

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