PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989039
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "151000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of a system and method for shingulating, singulating, and synchronizing articles in an article feeder system are disclosed. The article feeder system may include a shingulating device configured to receive a stack of articles and to produce a positively lapped stack of articles, a plurality of picking devices configured to pick one or more articles from the positively lapped stack of articles and to produce one or more singulated articles, and one or more synchronization devices configured to deliver the one or more singulated articles to one or more sorter windows.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of managing articles in an article feeder, the method comprising:\n picking one or more articles from a positively lapped stack of articles using a picking device comprising:\n opening a vacuum valve of the picking device to expose a vacuum manifold of the picking device to suction from a vacuum unit; \n applying the suction from the vacuum manifold through one or more openings in a perforated belt of the picking device to one of the one or more articles; and \n attaching the one article to the perforated belt using the suction through the one or more openings; \n producing one or more singulated articles by separating the article from the positively lapped stack of articles by driving the perforated belt with the attached article forward using a motor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22727
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13827122', '14742480', '13797291', '15668238', '15154603']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7643088170260647
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6084416422265473
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7487220995461129
- Mean Citation Score: 348.175776
- Max Citation Score: 564.7057
- Similarity Product: 531.4549020214199

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

Dataset: test