PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16298664
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["340", "686100"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for monitoring a dock leveler are disclosed herein. One example dock leveler system for use at a doorway of a loading dock, where a body is sometimes present at the loading dock, includes a deck movable between a raised position and a lowered position. The example dock leveler system also includes a sensor having a field of view extending over the deck when the deck is in the lowered position. The sensor is in a normal state when the deck is in the lowered position while the body is off the deck, the sensor is in a triggered state when the deck is in the lowered position while the body is on the deck interrupting the field of view, and the sensor is in the triggered state when the deck is in the raised position with the deck interrupting the field of view regardless of whether the body is on or off the deck.

Claim (Index 8):
A tangible computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to at least:\n determine, in response to sensor data generated by a sensor positioned at a loading dock, a status of a rear cargo door of a vehicle, the status including at least one of a closed position or an open position, and cause a deck to move between a stored position and an operating condition based on the status of the vehicle door.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14509860', '14878204', '11484413', '15189933', '14565064']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6445845037914174
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5338703078090544
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6335130841931811
- Mean Citation Score: 258.53387000000004
- Max Citation Score: 338.90082
- Similarity Product: 300.8360233019185

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