PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16257675
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["477", "097000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for adjusting powertrain torque in a vehicle based on driver intent. Driver intent is inferred based on foot motion inside a foot well monitored via a foot well region sensor and changes in clearance outside the vehicle monitored via a range sensor. By adjusting powertrain torque based on operator foot motion and traffic movements outside the vehicle, frequency of lash transitions can be reduced and lash transition initiation can be adjusted based on expected changes in torque demand.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 11 , further comprising, responsive to the second and third operator foot-off accelerator pedal event, further transitioning through the lash region from the threshold negative torque towards the threshold positive torque, a duration between a positive to negative transition and a negative to positive transition adjusted based on inferred driver intent to brake differentiated from driver intent to coast.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74
- Patent Class: 477.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15210631', '15434588', '15467195', '14566153', '14862214']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7552572877622719
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5817340076787478
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7379049597539195
- Mean Citation Score: 320.272002
- Max Citation Score: 503.82773
- Similarity Product: 393.7549957004212

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

Dataset: test