PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15780845
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["294", "185000"]

Abstract:
An automated picking apparatus for picking an object disposed on a surface. The automated picking apparatus comprises: a picking device displaceable toward the surface for picking the object; a compensator device co-operably connected to the picking device, the compensator device comprising a first magnet and a second magnet separated by a distance and arranged to repel away from each other; and an actuating mechanism operable for displacing the picking device toward the surface for picking the object, wherein operation of the actuating mechanism activates the compensator device and displaces the picking device co-operably connected thereto; wherein activation of the compensator device reduces the distance between the first and second magnetic elements thereof; and wherein continued operation of the actuating mechanism subsequent to contact between the picking device and the object further reduces the distance between the first and second magnetic elements of the compensator device.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for picking an object, the method comprising:\n displacing a picking device toward the object; activating a compensator device, wherein the compensator device is operable in cooperation with the picking device, the compensator device comprising a first magnetic element and a second magnetic element separated by a distance and arranged to repel away from each other; and reducing the distance between the first and second magnetic elements of the compensator device in response to activation of the compensator device and while the picking device is being displaced toward the object, wherein subsequent to contact between the picking device and the object, continued activation of the compensator device further reduces the distance between the first and second magnetic elements of the compensator device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61017
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13929637', '14342604', '13929643', '10469022', '13111492']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7006782927095309
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4710412617958048
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6777145896181582
- Mean Citation Score: 126.91023400000002
- Max Citation Score: 131.8976
- Similarity Product: 86.7261349258423

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

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