PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16046584
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
A vehicle includes a body with multiple interior and exterior surfaces and a lidar system including a set of one or more sensor units. Each sensor unit includes a light source configured to emit light, a scanner configured to direct the emitted light to scan a field of regard of the sensor unit according to a scan pattern, a receiver configured to detect the light scattered by one or more remote targets, and a housing enclosing the light source, the scanner, and the receiver. The housing of each sensor unit is embedded in one of the interior or exterior surfaces, so that a first portion of the housing projects out of the body and a second portion of the housing is inside the body.

Claim (Index 15):
A lidar system configured to operate in a vehicle that has a vehicle body with a plurality of interior and exterior surfaces, the lidar system comprising:\n a laser configured to be disposed inside the vehicle; a plurality of sensor units configured to be embedded in the interior and/or exterior surfaces of the vehicle body; and a plurality of laser-sensor links via which the laser provides light to each of the plurality of sensor units; wherein each of the sensor units includes:\n a scanner configured to direct the light from the laser to scan a field of regard of the sensor unit according to a scan pattern, \n a receiver configured to detect the light scattered by one or more remote targets, and \n a housing enclosing the scanner and the receiver, the housing including a first portion configured to project out of the vehicle body and a second portion configured to reside inside the vehicle body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21667
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15965197', '15965288', '15965471', '15965519', '15958749']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7938840908401331
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5613373771707133
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7706294194731911
- Mean Citation Score: 459.310604
- Max Citation Score: 482.71622
- Similarity Product: 350.4566133268118

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