PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15746194
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["049", "028000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates generally to the field of motorized garage door openers. In particular, the invention relates to wireless safety sensors for garage door openers and garage door opener with a wireless safety sensor. The wireless safety sensor has a wireless communication link with a main control unit of the garage door opener. The wireless safety sensor also has an internal wireless link, i.e., a detection beam link, between a master unit and a slave unit. The wireless safety sensor periodically verifies that the wireless communication link has good signal quality and maintains the quality of the wireless communication link.

Claim (Index 1):
A garage door opener system for opening and closing a garage door, the garage door opener system comprising:\n a main control unit for controlling operation of an electric motor to move the garage door along a door closing path; and a safety sensor unit communicating over a wireless connection with the main control unit, the safety sensor unit periodically transmitting a wireless initiation signal to the main control unit to initiate verification of quality of the wireless connection and, upon detection of failure of meeting a pre-selected quality criteria, restoring the quality to better than pre-set criteria, the safety sensor unit being configured to transmit a path blocked signal wirelessly upon detection of path blocked condition of the door closing path, wherein the main control unit is configured to send a door closing signal over the wireless connection to the safety sensor unit before starting a door closing cycle to direct the safety sensor unit to commence detection of any path blocked condition and to stop or reverse the motion of the electric motor upon receiving the path blocked signal wirelessly from the safety sensor unit during the door closing cycle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 92.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31915
- Patent Class: 49.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11690380', '11344949', '13871290', '11523863', '11751746']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7912836866446871
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4909624482389996
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7612515628041183
- Mean Citation Score: 239.664916
- Max Citation Score: 250.42162
- Similarity Product: 204.88329516555785

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