PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16114950
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["701", "041000"]

Abstract:
A system and method to avoid collisions on highways, and to minimize the fatalities, injury, and damage when a collision is unavoidable. The system includes sensor means to detect other vehicles, and computing means to evaluate when a collision is imminent and to determine whether the collision is avoidable. If the collision is avoidable by a sequence of controlled accelerations and decelerations and steering, the system implements that sequence of actions automatically. If the collision is unavoidable, a different sequence is implemented to minimize the overall harm of the unavoidable collision. The system further includes indirect mitigation steps such as flashing the brake lights automatically. An optional post-collision strategy is implemented to prevent secondary collisions, particularly if the driver is incapacitated. Adjustment means enable the driver to set the type and timing of automatic interventions.

Claim (Index 7):
A system for avoiding or minimizing the harm of a collision between a subject vehicle and a second vehicle, comprising:\n a first processor configured to determine whether the subject vehicle will collide with the second vehicle when no evasive actions are taken; a second processor configured to calculate future trajectories of the subject and second vehicles according to respective sequences of actions, each action comprising an acceleration or a deceleration or a steering action or a waiting time; a third processor configured to implement one of the respective sequences of actions based on the future trajectories calculated by the second processor, the implemented sequence of actions projected to avoid the collision; and a fourth processor configured to calculate the expected harm associated with the collision according to one or more of the sequences of actions based on the future trajectories calculated by the second processor; and a fifth processor configured to implement a particular one of the sequences of actions, calculated by the fourth processor, that is projected to minimize the harm of the collision; wherein the first through fifth processors are implemented on a single processing element or on multiple processing elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96053
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15347573', '15729757', '15347612', '14598495', '13556471']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5163057752476021
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5953924320796903
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5242144409308109
- Mean Citation Score: 362.610182
- Max Citation Score: 471.0211
- Similarity Product: 400.68407124062776

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