PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16371675
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["405", "157000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a microtrencher having a utility avoidance system that detects objects buried under the roadway, identifies whether the buried object is a utility and determines whether the buried utility is in the path of the cutting wheel. If the buried utility is in the path of the cutting wheel, an alert is sent to the operator, the vehicle is stopped, and/or the cutting wheel is raised in relation to the roadway.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of cutting a microtrench in a roadway comprising:\n providing a microtrencher having a utility avoidance system comprising\n a motorized vehicle; \n a cutting wheel connected to the vehicle and being configured to continuously cut through a roadway and create a microtrench in the roadway; and \n a utility avoidance device connected to the vehicle comprising:\n an under-roadway detection unit configured to detect buried utilities under the roadway before the cutting wheel cuts the microtrench in the roadway; \n a computer system configured to receive detection data from the under-roadway detection unit; \n a user interface device coupled to the computer system; \n a display coupled to the computer system, wherein the computer system is configured to interpret the detection data and identify utilities buried under the roadway, determine whether the buried utility is within the path of the cutting wheel, and if the buried utility is within the path of the cutting wheel, at least one of sending an alert to an operator of the microtrencher, stopping forward movement of the vehicle, and/or raising the cutting wheel in relation to the roadway; \n \n continuously cutting a microtrench in the roadway; detecting a buried object under the roadway by the utility avoidance system; identifying the buried object as a buried utility; determining that the buried utility is in the path of the cutting wheel; and at least one of sending an alert to the operator of the microtrencher, stopping forward movement of vehicle by vehicle control system in communication with the vehicle, and/or raising the cutting wheel in relation to the roadway by a height adjustment device in communication with the computer system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05263
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16183780', '16000628', '16138038', '13779488', '12199247']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7669867672571578
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5712469917847509
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7474127897099171
- Mean Citation Score: 309.9535259999999
- Max Citation Score: 566.27496
- Similarity Product: 344.27069396121016

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

Dataset: test