PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16400243
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["700", "259000"]

Abstract:
A cleaning robot includes a chassis, a drive system connected to the chassis and configured to drive the robot, a signal generator and sensor carried by the chassis, and a controller in communication with the drive system and the sensor. The signal generator directs a signal toward the floor surface. The sensor is responsive to reflected signals from the floor surface. The controller controls the drive system to alter direction of the robot responsive to a reflected signal indicating an edge of the floor surface.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of maneuvering an autonomous cleaning robot across a surface within a bounded area having at least one open edge, the bounded area being part of an environment, the method comprising:\n driving the autonomous cleaning robot across a surface while sensing a sensor output from a sensor of the autonomous cleaning robot, the sensor output indicative of a characteristic of the surface on which the autonomous cleaning robot is traveling; while continuing to drive the autonomous cleaning robot, evaluating the sensor output against a baseline signal characteristic to determine whether the sensor output is indicative of the autonomous cleaning robot being adjacent the at least one open edge of the bounded area, in which the open edge represents a traversable border between the bounded area having a first surface type and a second area having a second surface type that is different from the first surface type; making a navigation decision in response to determining from the sensor output that the autonomous cleaning robot is adjacent the at least one open edge of the bounded area; maintaining one or more maps of the environment; and storing information about the at least one open edge of the bounded area in the one or more maps.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2439
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15698005', '14511947', '14622613', '11633869', '14568180']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4026737853448696
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5168096719032599
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4140873740007086
- Mean Citation Score: 245.137378
- Max Citation Score: 340.41766
- Similarity Product: 309.46095095746165

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

Dataset: test