PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16099253
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["198", "575000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for transporting containers or packs of containers includes an endlessly circulating belt driven by a drive. A mark marks a position on the belt and a sensor detects the mark. A controller receives data from the drive's rotation-angle detector and from the sensor. It then uses this data to either determine an extent to which the belt has elongated or to control the drive.

Claim (Index 27):
A method comprising controlling and monitoring a conveyor that comprises an endlessly circulating belt that is driven by a drive and that includes a rotation-angle detector and a stationary sensor for detecting a mark on said belt, wherein controlling and monitoring said conveyor comprises detecting said mark, storing a first reference rotation angle that is associated with detection of said mark, determining a second rotation angle that is associated with said mark's position, determining that said first and second rotation angles differ from each other, and, based at least in part on said difference, executing a task selected from a first task and a second task, wherein said first task comprises determining an extent to which said belt has elongated and wherein said second task comprises regulating said drive's speed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54348
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11558645', '11420929', '11269812', '11867426', '16078762']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6965517737101252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4226934510572981
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6691659414448425
- Mean Citation Score: 114.497627
- Max Citation Score: 122.27869
- Similarity Product: 100.281738754493

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