PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979706
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["156", "350000"]

Abstract:
A tape dispensing system includes packaging tape an application apparatus, and an incision element. The application apparatus is configured to apply the packaging tape to a package. The incision element defines a unique pattern, and is connected to the application apparatus. Movement of the apparatus is effective to punch or incise the unique pattern defined by the incision element completely through the packaging tape and into the package as or after the packaging tape is applied to the package.

Claim (Index 11):
A system for determining package tampering, the system comprising:\n a communication network; a tape dispensing device disposed at a shipping source, the tape dispensing device configured to dispense packing tape onto a package to seal the package, the tape dispensing device further configured to incise or punch first openings defining a unique pattern completely through the tape as the tape is dispensed onto the package, and to incise or punch corresponding second openings defining the unique pattern into a body of the package; a first scanner at the shipping source, the first scanner being coupled to the communication network and configured to obtain a first image of the package including the unique pattern incised or punched through the tape, the first scanner configured to transmit the first image to a central processing center via the communication network; a database coupled to the communication network and disposed at the central processing center, the database configured to receive and store the first image; a control circuit coupled to the communication network and the database, the control circuit being disposed at the central processing center; a second scanner disposed at a shipping destination and configured to obtain a second image of the package after the package has been received at the shipping destination, the second scanner being configured to transmit the second image to the control circuit at the central processing center over the communication network; wherein the control circuit is configured to retrieve the first image from the database and the second image from the second scanner, the control circuit being further configured to perform a comparison between the first image to the second image, and based upon the comparison to determine whether the unique pattern has changed between the shipment of the package from the shipping source to the shipping destination.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.125
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11194421', '14021533', '15440688', '11950184', '13305611']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8879913152288589
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4370786673938733
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8429000504453603
- Mean Citation Score: 101.006445
- Max Citation Score: 110.301476
- Similarity Product: 91.88318121921468

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