PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974230
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["347", "102000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods where a delay time between a first card processing mechanism, such as a drop-on-demand printer that prints with UV curable ink, and a second card processing mechanism, such as a UV curing station, can be altered to adjust the travel time of the card from the first card processing mechanism to the second card processing mechanism. First and second card buffers can be provided between the first card processing mechanism and the second card processing mechanism. Each of the first and second card buffers is independently logically controlled to permit independent control of the transport time of a card through each card buffer. Alternatively, a single card buffer or more than two card buffers can be provided between the first card processing mechanism and the second card processing mechanism.

Claim (Index 1):
A card processing system, comprising:\n a first card processing mechanism that is configured to perform a processing operation on a plastic card, the first card processing mechanism includes a first mechanical card transport mechanism that is configured to transport plastic cards along a first card travel path through the first card processing mechanism; a second card processing mechanism that is configured to perform a processing operation on a plastic card, the second card processing mechanism is located downstream of the first card processing mechanism and includes a second mechanical card transport mechanism that is configured to transport plastic cards along a second card travel path through the second card processing mechanism; and first and second card buffers disposed between the first card processing mechanism and the second card processing mechanism, each of the first and second card buffers includes a mechanical card transport mechanism that is configured to transport a plastic card along a card travel path, the mechanical card transport mechanism of the first card buffer is independently logically controlled from the mechanical card transport mechanism of the second card buffer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47368
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15958842', '15974169', '15395309', '15915291', '14196554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7513159616806744
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4919127671320635
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7253756422258133
- Mean Citation Score: 220.508506
- Max Citation Score: 248.78783
- Similarity Product: 184.4654447965061

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