PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16371675
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["405", "157000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a microtrencher having a utility avoidance system that detects objects buried under the roadway, identifies whether the buried object is a utility and determines whether the buried utility is in the path of the cutting wheel. If the buried utility is in the path of the cutting wheel, an alert is sent to the operator, the vehicle is stopped, and/or the cutting wheel is raised in relation to the roadway.

Claim (Index 20):
The method according to  claim 19 , wherein the steps of continuously transporting the spoil from the micro-trencher to the first container constructed to contain spoil using a first spoil transporting device and continuously laying at least one of the cable and innerduct/microduct in the micro-trench from a reel device are conducted using the micro-trencher using a multifunctional reel carrier, spoil material handling container device comprising:\n a first truck or first trailer; the first container constructed to contain the spoil being on the first truck or first trailer; and the at least one spoil transporting device constructed to transfer the spoil from the micro trencher and deposit the spoil in the first container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05263
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16183780', '16000628', '16138038', '13779488', '12199247']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7565956299344906
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.60681121021428
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7416171879624696
- Mean Citation Score: 309.9535259999999
- Max Citation Score: 566.27496
- Similarity Product: 482.0764221039104

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

Dataset: test