PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16127956
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["702", "034000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for inspecting a railway track. The system preferably includes: a processor; at least one sensor oriented to capture data of the railway track; a data storage device in electronic communication with the processor; and computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable storage medium in communication with the processor operable to: determine an elevation of a surface of a rail head of a rail located on the railway track based on a distance to the rail head from the at least one sensor, determine an elevation of a surface of a crosstie of the railway track based on a distance to a top surface of the crosstie from the at least one sensor, estimate a total rail height and underlying rail support, and calculate a crosstie wear value based on the determined rail head surface elevation, crosstie surface elevation, and estimated total rail height and underlying rail support.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 7 , wherein the estimated total rail height is determined based on one or more visual indicators displayed on the rail which are visually captured by the at least one sensor and compared by the processor to a database of rail markings used by the manufacturer of the rail.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60317
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14725490', '11172618', '12489570', '14599757', '13795841']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2571298456670643
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.514967050261845
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2829135661265424
- Mean Citation Score: 292.616204
- Max Citation Score: 312.53955
- Similarity Product: 223.75278411136867

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

Dataset: test