PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980252
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["209", "599000"]

Abstract:
A tennis ball sorting apparatus tests the internal pressure of individual tennis balls and automatically separates a large number of tennis balls based on their internal pressure. Methods of using the same are further provided.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 12  wherein the separation unit comprises a reversible roller and a first path and a second path, and further comprising the step of:\n when after testing the internal pressure of the first ball and the first ball has a measured internal pressure below a pre-defined internal pressure, routing the first ball onto the first path by turning the reversible roller the first direction or routing the first ball onto the second path by turning the reversible roller in a second direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.32143
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15341501', '12657032', '11820423', '14726949', '15123598']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5703321142160487
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5078808461231422
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.564086987406758
- Mean Citation Score: 144.669558
- Max Citation Score: 150.29256
- Similarity Product: 80.31223917437553

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