PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049734
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["235", "375000"]

Abstract:
Various arrangements are presented for cleaning and sorting smartcards. An identifier present on the exterior of the smartcard may be scanned. A smartcard may be dispensed from an intake magazine that housing a plurality of smartcards. The smartcard may be moved along a cleaning assembly. The contacts of the smartcard may be cleaned. The contacts of the smartcard may be dried. After cleaning and drying the contacts of the smartcard, the smartcard may be sorted into either a cleaned output magazine or a cleaned rejection tray based on whether the scanning of the identifier was successfully performed.

Claim (Index 1):
A transaction card cleaning and sorting apparatus, comprising:\n a housing; an uncleaned intake magazine for housing a plurality of transaction cards that dispenses each transaction card of the plurality of transaction cards individually, the uncleaned intake magazine coupled with the housing, wherein each transaction card comprises a machine-readable identifier; an identifier scanner attached with the housing that attempts to read the machine-readable identifier of each transaction card of the plurality of transaction cards; a cleaning assembly, coupled with the housing, that cleans each transaction card of the plurality of transaction cards; a sorting assembly, coupled with the housing, that receives the plurality of transaction cards following each transaction card of the plurality of transaction cards passing through the cleaning assembly and sorts each transaction card of the plurality of transaction cards based on whether the identifier scanner successfully read the machine-readable identifier of the transaction card; and a cleaned output magazine, coupled with the housing, that receives and stores at least a subset of the plurality of transaction cards received from the sorting assembly, wherein each transaction card of the at least the subset of the plurality of transaction cards had the machine-readable identifier of the transaction card successfully scanned by the identifier scanner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94444
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15680479', '13447882', '12715320', '14588077', '11557212']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5034167142195349
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5877152381356653
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5118465666111479
- Mean Citation Score: 225.277006
- Max Citation Score: 515.2024
- Similarity Product: 459.3842536262512

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