PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875347
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "003000"]

Abstract:
Indoor mapping and modular control for UAVs and other autonomous vehicles, and associated systems and methods. A representative unmanned aerial vehicle system includes a body, a propulsion system carried by the body, a sensor system carried by the body, and a controller carried at least in part by the body and operatively coupled to the propulsion system and the sensor system. The controller is programmed with instructions that, when executed, operate in a first autonomous mode and a second autonomous mode. In the first autonomous mode, the instructions autonomously direct the propulsion system to convey the body along a first route within an indoor environment. While the body travels along the first route, the instructions receive inputs from the sensor system corresponding to features of the indoor environment. The features are stored as part of a 3-D map. In the second autonomous mode, the instructions direct the propulsion system to convey the body along a second route within the indoor environment, based at least in part on the 3-D map, and direct performance of an operation on the second route.

Claim (Index 28):
A method for controlling multiple types of unmanned vehicle systems, comprising:\n mechanically connecting a removable modular control unit to a first unmanned vehicle; while the modular control unit is carried by the first unmanned vehicle, controlling motion of the first unmanned vehicle via at least one sensor carried by the modular control unit, at least one processor carried by the modular control unit and coupled to the at least one sensor, and a communication link coupled between the modular control unit and the first unmanned vehicle; disconnecting the modular control unit from the first unmanned vehicle; removing the modular control unit from the first unmanned vehicle; mechanically connecting the modular control unit to a second unmanned vehicle, the second unmanned vehicle being of a type different than a type of the first unmanned vehicle, and wherein the types include at least two from the group comprising unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned land vehicles, and unmanned water vehicles; coupling the communication link to the second unmanned vehicle; and while the modular control unit is carried by the second unmanned vehicle, controlling motion of the second unmanned vehicle via the at least one sensor, the at least one processor, and the communication link.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60526
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14788231', '15340404', '14801640', '12008176', '14940379']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4222671234320177
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4606803416665123
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4261084452554672
- Mean Citation Score: 153.408098
- Max Citation Score: 161.85693
- Similarity Product: 124.4230211670202

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

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