PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16356048
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["198", "459100"]

Abstract:
An article induction system for preparing a stream of articles, such as mail parcels, for processing employs a series of conveyors operating under control of a controller for feeding articles to an operator at a cull belt at an optimal paced rate. The article induction system includes a destacking section, a separation and alignment section, a buffer section and a culling section manned by an operator. A controller controls the speed of each component based on measurements provided by sensors so as to feed articles to the operator at a desired paced rate.

Claim (Index 18):
An induction conveyor system for preparing a product for processing, comprising:\n a plurality of upstream conveyors for converting a bulk flow of products into a series of products; a buffer conveyor for receiving the series of products, buffering the series of products and releasing the product to a cull belt, a buffer full sensor for sensing that the buffer conveyor is full of product; a cull belt for conveying product from the buffer past an operator at a selected paced rate; and a controller for modulating conditions in the system based on measurements of the product by a plurality of sensors, wherein the controller decreases a speed of an upstream conveyor to reduce a flow of product to the buffer conveyor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69492
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15727730', '14604847', '15588230', '15113528', '14998406']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.734875743056073
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5729194694061488
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7186801156910806
- Mean Citation Score: 324.927766
- Max Citation Score: 526.4811
- Similarity Product: 450.586109471458

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