PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989039
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "151000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of a system and method for shingulating, singulating, and synchronizing articles in an article feeder system are disclosed. The article feeder system may include a shingulating device configured to receive a stack of articles and to produce a positively lapped stack of articles, a plurality of picking devices configured to pick one or more articles from the positively lapped stack of articles and to produce one or more singulated articles, and one or more synchronization devices configured to deliver the one or more singulated articles to one or more sorter windows.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of processing articles comprising:\n receiving a first article on a moveable belt in a first one of a plurality of picking devices; applying a vacuum force to the first article via the first picking device; detecting, via a first sensor, a leading edge of the first article; determining a first virtual window for the first article, wherein determining the first vertical window comprises:\n determining a distance between the detected leading edge of the first article and a rendezvous point; \n determining a speed and location of a sorter window; and \n determining a time required to accelerate the first article to a required speed to rendezvous with the sorter window at the rendezvous point; \n synchronizing a position of the leading edge of the first article with the first virtual window, wherein the synchronizing comprises: \n determining an initial speed of the first article; \n determining a time required to move the first article via the first picking device to the rendezvous point; \n comparing the time required to move the first article to the rendezvous point with the time required to move the virtual window to the rendezvous point; and \n accelerating or decelerating the first article via the first picking device to match the speed and position of the first article with the speed and position of the virtual window at the rendezvous point; \n passing the first article from the moveable belt of the first picking device to a moveable belt of a second one of the plurality of picking devices; detecting, via a second sensor, the leading edge of the first article; re-synchronizing the position of the leading edge of the first article with the first virtual window via the second picking device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22727
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13827122', '14742480', '13797291', '15668238', '15154603']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7709970196589078
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5853195600657944
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7524292736995964
- Mean Citation Score: 348.175776
- Max Citation Score: 564.7057
- Similarity Product: 440.8604376343192

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test