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 23):
A method for picking an object, the method comprising:\n displacing a set of picking devices, the set of picking devices including a first picking device and a second picking device, toward the object; activating a set of compensator devices, the set of compensator devices coupled to the set of picking devices and including a first compensator device and a second compensator device, wherein each of the first and second compensator devices comprises a first magnet and a second magnet separated by a distance and arranged to repel away from each other, and wherein the first and second compensator devices are operable in cooperation with the first and second picking devices, respectively; reducing the distances between the first and second magnets of the first and second compensator devices in response to activation thereof and while the first and second picking devices are being displaced toward the object, displacing the first picking device until the first picking device contacts the object before the second picking device contacts the object; displacing the second picking device toward the object subsequent to contact between the first picking device and the object; and further reducing the distance between the first and second magnets of the first compensator device, wherein the distance between the first and second magnets of the first compensator device is reduced until the second picking device contacts the object.

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): 0.7015653714205572
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4671631946425096
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6781251537427524
- Mean Citation Score: 126.91023400000002
- Max Citation Score: 131.8976
- Similarity Product: 89.479840222168

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

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