PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16160558
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["294", "086400"]

Abstract:
Robotic grippers have been employed to grasp and manipulate target objects. One task posing relatively unique problems is the handling of meat products, which can be difficult to grasp with a conventional gripper due to the surface texture and malleability of the meat, among other factors. This is particularly problematic when the meat product includes a bone, which has different properties from the relatively malleable meat surrounding it. Exemplary embodiments described herein provide robotic grippers having one or more fingers and a layered plate. The layered structure defines grooves sized and configured to lead in and capture the bone structure of the meat product. The grooves provide a backstop for the meat as well as preventing rotation or translation of the bone structure, thus allowing a firm grasp to be secured on the meat product.

Claim (Index 11):
A method comprising:\n affixing the bumper plate of  claim 1  to the robotic end effector; and actuating the one or more robotic actuators to grasp the meat product between the robotic actuators and one or more of the first layer, the second layer, or the third layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64773
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15967210', '16160580', '16160604', '15180653', '15411212']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7021759286522218
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.478018676105964
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.679760203397596
- Mean Citation Score: 131.20241099999998
- Max Citation Score: 143.46255
- Similarity Product: 106.63933347144128

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

Dataset: test