PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961068
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["033", "228000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle wheel alignment system and method is provided for performing a rolling wheel axis of rotation and wheel spindle point calculation every time an alignment is performed. Embodiments include an aligner having a target fixedly attachable to a wheel of the vehicle; a camera for viewing the target and capturing image data of the target; and a data processor. The data processor receives the image data from the camera, and determines a vector pointing from the target origin to a wheel spindle point based on the captured target image data, when the vehicle is rolled while the wheel is on a substantially flat surface such that the wheel and target rotate a number of degrees. The data processor is further adapted to calculate an alignment parameter for the vehicle based at least in part on the wheel axis of rotation and the coordinates of the wheel spindle point.

Claim (Index 41):
A vehicle service system, comprising:\n at least one sensor configured to acquire data associated with a wheel assembly on a vehicle at a plurality of rotational positions during a rolling movement across a supporting surface; a processing system configured to receive said acquired data from said at least one sensor, said processing system further configured with a set of software instructions to process said acquired data to obtain a sequence of values representative of at least one parameter associated with the wheel assembly in each of said plurality of rotational positions; said processing system further configured with software instructions to evaluate said sequence of values to identify at least one value which deviates during said rolling movement, from an expected value by more than a tolerance; and wherein said processing system is further configured with software instructions to respond to an identification of at least one deviating value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21127
- Patent Class: 33.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14990271', '15068299', '15287528', '15287499', '12716459']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6789427060052511
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.528377409490613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6638861763537873
- Mean Citation Score: 249.73398000000003
- Max Citation Score: 367.11572
- Similarity Product: 323.59244366814374

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

Dataset: test