PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976074
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["404", "075000"]

Abstract:
A paving system includes a paving machine, a controller, and a control panel. The paving machine includes a machine frame, a drive assembly, and a paving material delivery assembly, which includes a hopper, a conveyor assembly, an auger, and a screed. The paving machine also includes an emulsion fluid delivery assembly, including a tank of emulsion fluid and a spray bar including a plurality of nozzles. The controller is wired or wirelessly coupled to the tank and the spray bar to control at least one of a temperature, pressure, or delivery rate of the emulsion fluid through the nozzles.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of operating a paving machine, comprising:\n activating a drive assembly of the paving machine, wherein the drive assembly includes at least one drive wheel, one or more idlers, and at least one track; delivering an emulsion fluid to a ground surface, wherein the emulsion fluid is stored in a tank on the paving machine, and wherein the tank is fluidly coupled to at least one spray bar positioned between the at least one drive wheel and one or more idlers; and delivering paving material to the ground surface, wherein the paving material is transferred from a hopper to a rear of the paving machine by a conveyor assembly, and wherein the paving material is spread on the ground surface by one or more augers and a screed, wherein the delivery of the emulsion fluid through the at least one spray bar is controlled by a controller, wherein the controller is connected to a control panel to indicate and receive user input to control the status of at least the delivery of the emulsion fluid through the nozzles, wherein the controller is connected to the drive assembly to receive information regarding a direction of the paving machine, and wherein the controller is configured to automatically modify the spray pattern of the emulsion fluid by controlling the activation of nozzles based on the received information regarding the direction of the paving machine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.375
- Patent Class: 404.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15975923', '15976509', '11193606', '15496714', '11689388']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7250337687509929
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5072394233421263
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7032543342101063
- Mean Citation Score: 234.439112
- Max Citation Score: 313.40445
- Similarity Product: 280.98404850273727

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

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