PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174882
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["452", "156000"]

Abstract:
A system for processing a suspended beef carcass as the carcass is moved along a defined path. A robotic arm is carried on a moveable table and has mounted thereon a servo motor-driven band saw capable of effecting a splitting operation on the beef carcass. The band saw is counterbalanced by a mass having a weight less than the weight of the band saw, and the robotic arm has a maximum load-carrying capacity less than the weight of the band saw. A torque monitor for the servo motor detects breaks in the band saw or breaks in the support for the band saw. A vision-based sensor system detects location of a tail bone on the beef carcass and identifies an age-indicating indicia. The system includes a controller in communication with the carcass rail, the carcass processing device and motor, and the vision-based sensor system.

Claim (Index 22):
A method of processing a suspended carcass as the carcass is moved along a defined path comprising:\n providing a line having carcasses to be processed, the line moving the carcasses horizontally past a processing station; providing at the processing station a robot-based carcass processing device having a base and a robotic arm movable relative to the base with multiple axes of motion, the base being moveable horizontally and synchronously with a carcass moving on the line; providing a carcass processing tool mounted to the robotic arm, the carcass processing tool comprising a saw for cutting the carcass; providing a robotic controller in communication with robot-based carcass processing device for controlling and moving the base horizontally and in communication with the robotic arm for controlling and moving the multiple axes of the robotic arm to move the carcass processing tool in Cartesian space via inverse kinematics and having interpolation control over the multiple axes of the robotic arm; continuously moving a plurality of carcasses on the line sequentially past the processing station; while a selected carcass is passing the processing station, alternately: i) using the controller to synchronously move the base of the robot-based carcass processing device horizontally along with the selected carcass while the carcass processing tool saw begins to move to cut the carcass, without the robotic arm moving horizontally relative to the base, and ii) using the controller to synchronously move the robotic arm of the robot-based carcass processing device horizontally relative to the base and along with the selected carcass while the carcass processing tool saw continues to move to complete cutting of the carcass, without the base moving relative to the carcass.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 119.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18571
- Patent Class: 452.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15886323', '15663097', '14719862', '14412005', '10945760']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6647896299249603
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6299943563204928
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6613101025645135
- Mean Citation Score: 421.024316
- Max Citation Score: 616.33984
- Similarity Product: 589.6413572839355

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