PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16296824
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "050000"]

Abstract:
When performing a seed planting operation, a variety change distance may be calculated that corresponds to the distance from a variety zone boundary of a prescription map that a row unit of a planter must be located prior to initiating a variety change procedure for switching seed types. Once the row unit reaches a variety change boundary spaced apart from the variety zone boundary by the calculated variety change distance, a system controller may initiate the variety change procedure to allow the seed type being planted to be efficiently and effectively switched as the planter makes a planting pass across the field.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for switching seed types between a first seed type and a second seed type during a planting operation, the method comprising:\n monitoring, with a computing device, a location of a row unit of a planting implement within a field as the planting implement makes a planting pass across the field while seeds of the first seed type are being discharged from a seed meter of the row unit, the computing device storing predetermined starvation data for the seed meter that is associated with substantially evacuating the seed meter of the seeds of the first seed type; determining, with the computing device, that the row unit will encounter a variety zone boundary along the planting pass, the variety zone boundary identifying a location within the field at which it is prescribed to switch from planting seeds of the first seed type to planting seeds of the second seed type; performing, with the computing device, an in-field calibration routine as the planting implement makes the planting pass across the field to determine updated starvation data associated with substantially evacuating the seed meter of the seeds of the first seed type; determining, with the computing device, a location of a variety change boundary within the field relative to the variety zone boundary based at least in part on the updated starvation data; and when the row unit reaches the location of the variety change boundary, initiating, with the computing device, a variety change procedure associated with switching the operation of the row unit from planting seeds of the first seed type to planting seeds of the second seed type.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89286
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15704472', '15852043', '14615776', '14506020', '14615837']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4096000058013263
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6015872393684335
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4287987291580371
- Mean Citation Score: 322.60599
- Max Citation Score: 516.19037
- Similarity Product: 496.0037004661757

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