PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16243618
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["701", "029000"]

Abstract:
An Electronic Stability Control (ESC) system for a vehicle is disclosed. An electronic control unit (ECU) is programmed to reduce vehicle lateral skidding by reducing differences between an intended vehicle direction and/or yaw rate and an actual vehicle direction and/or yaw rate by applying modifications to operation of the vehicle brakes and/or throttle. The ESC system receives inputs from wheel speed sensors, a steering wheel position sensor, a yaw rate sensor and a lateral acceleration sensor. The ESC system also receives input that indicates at least a property of the road upon which the vehicle is located, wherein the road upon which the vehicle is located is determined from a positioning system that uses a map database and the property is determined from the map database. The ESC system incorporates the road property information in determining when and/or how to modify operation of the vehicle to reduce vehicle skidding.

Claim (Index 1):
A system, comprising:\n an electronic control unit comprising a processor operable to execute programming functions stored in a memory coupled therewith, wherein said electronic control unit is operably coupled to at least one sensor operative to sense at least one aspect of operation of a vehicle and generate a signal indicative thereof, and further wherein said electronic control unit is operably coupled to a positioning system to receive information indicating the position and/or direction of the vehicle on a road and a property of a portion of the road upon which the vehicle is located that is ahead of the position of the vehicle; and a computer program stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the processor to receive the signal from the at least one sensor and the information from the positioning system that indicates the property of the portion of the road upon which the vehicle is located that is ahead of the position of the vehicle, the processor configured to determine how the vehicle is actually being operated based on the signal from the at least one sensor and to determine whether actual operation of the vehicle is consistent with the property of the portion of the road upon which the vehicle is located that is ahead of the position of the vehicle, wherein the operation of the vehicle is determined to be intended when the actual operation of the vehicle is consistent with the property of the portion of the road upon which the vehicle is located that is ahead of the position of the vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0641
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15342840', '14101780', '15060951', '12798758', '12798788']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5348218753372368
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5441799979431498
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.535757687597828
- Mean Citation Score: 380.976698
- Max Citation Score: 399.62177
- Similarity Product: 374.4027382075811

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

Dataset: test