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 1):
A bumper plate for a robotic end effector comprising one or more robotic actuators capable of moving between an undeployed state and a deployed state by curving along a central axis of rotation, a distal end of the one or more robotic actuators being brought into proximity with a palm region of an end effector base when the one or more actuators is in the deployed state, the bumper plate comprising:\n a first layer configured to be affixed to the robotic end effector; a second layer provided on a top surface of the first layer, the second layer sized and shaped so as to create a lengthwise-extending central groove with respect to the first layer; and a third layer provided on a top surface of the second layer, the third layer sized and shaped so as to create an angled groove with respect to the second layer, an angle of the groove selected so as to accommodate a bone of a first type of meat product that extends through the meat product at an angle.

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): 0.7085411630155071
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4497299851981394
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6826600452337703
- Mean Citation Score: 131.20241099999998
- Max Citation Score: 143.46255
- Similarity Product: 129.63197025597094

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

Dataset: test