PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16009838
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["198", "437000"]

Abstract:
A controller of a robotic material handling system performs a method that conveys articles from a pile within a confined space. One or more articles per operation are robotically moved onto a vertically-positionable nose conveyor surface conveys toward a narrower rearward conveyor. Controller detects a jammed article that is at least partially supported by the nose conveyor and that has failed to fully convey onto the rearward. The controller attempts to dislodge the jammed article by causing at least one of: (i) vertically repositioning the nose conveyor surface; and (ii) activating at least one of the two or more parallel conveyors of the nose conveyor surface to run in a forward direction. After the attempt to dislodge, the controller activates at least one parallel conveyor that is contact with the jammed article in a rearward direction.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein detecting the jammed article comprises:\n scanning the nose conveyor surface; identifying one or more articles that are present on the nose conveyor surface within respective zones of the two or more parallel conveyors by comparing the scanned nose conveyor surface to a baseline scan of an empty nose conveyor surface; tracking the at least one article within an identified zone of the at least one of the two or more parallel conveyors of the nose conveyor surface; and based on tracking the at least one article, determining that the at least one article has become the jammed article by failing to be conveyed onto the rearward conveyor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87342
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15483151', '15375900', '15481969', '14471688', '14836216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7313655597895696
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.560755002924451
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7143045041030578
- Mean Citation Score: 306.96487399999995
- Max Citation Score: 495.915
- Similarity Product: 384.65201847285033

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