PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982853
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["209", "576000"]

Abstract:
A method and system for sorting workpieces, such as chicken nuggets. The sorting system includes a conveyor system that advances in a forward direction and one or more blow off bars positioned over the conveyor system. The blow off bars extend along the forward advancing direction. The blow off bars include one or more valved nozzles connected to a pressurized source of a fluid, and the nozzles are positioned to discharge the fluid across the conveyor system.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 1 , comprising blowing off workpieces from a single lane division into only a subset of a plurality of chutes placed along a lateral side of the conveyor surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80435
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15197565', '13405154', '14161522', '10875743', '14376480']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5899700556681294
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.556878425233597
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5866608926246761
- Mean Citation Score: 221.32501
- Max Citation Score: 443.8495
- Similarity Product: 299.10512869134544

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