PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982853
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["209", "576000"]

Abstract:
A method and system for sorting workpieces, such as chicken nuggets. The sorting system includes a conveyor system that advances in a forward direction and one or more blow off bars positioned over the conveyor system. The blow off bars extend along the forward advancing direction. The blow off bars include one or more valved nozzles connected to a pressurized source of a fluid, and the nozzles are positioned to discharge the fluid across the conveyor system.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for sorting workpieces, comprising:\n arranging singulated workpieces on a conveyor system in one of a plurality of lane divisions across a width of a conveyor surface while the conveyor surface advances; determining a characteristic of the workpieces in the lane divisions as the conveyor surface advances and assigning one of a plurality of sort categories to the workpieces in the lane divisions; and blowing off the workpieces from the surface of the conveyor system with a jet of fluid across the surface of the conveyor as the surface advances, wherein the workpieces are blown off corresponding to the assigned sort category for the workpiece, and wherein the workpieces assigned to the same sort category are collected together.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80435
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15197565', '13405154', '14161522', '10875743', '14376480']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5873406356910015
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5622270689137575
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5848292790132771
- Mean Citation Score: 221.32501
- Max Citation Score: 443.8495
- Similarity Product: 342.1942199196219

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

Dataset: test