PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16389113
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["361", "679410"]

Abstract:
An industrial safety controller comprises a non-volatile memory configured for storing an industrial control program and at least one processing unit. The industrial safety controller, which may be a safety relay, further comprises a connector configured to communicatively couple the safety controller with an expansion module. The safety controller is configured to receive an input and/or provide an output via an I/O expansion module that is coupled to the safety controller utilizing the connector. The industrial safety controller may comprise an expansion module bay and the connector may comprise a bay connector.

Claim (Index 1):
An industrial safety controller configured to evaluate functional safety of a safety program to verify a target output is operating in a safe state, the industrial safety controller comprising:\n at least one processor operative to execute a plurality of instructions to perform the following: receive at least one input signal; generate a safety output signal with a safety function responsive to receiving the at least one input signal; provide the safety output signal to an output terminal of a non-safety module; receive a feedback signal at the at least one processor from at least one load actuated by the safety output signal; when a value of the at least one input signal changes, make a determination that the safety output signal corresponds to the feedback signal; and verify a target output is operating in a safe state when the safety output signal corresponds to the feedback signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14671464', '16041383', '14926255', '14703435', '11240706']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8527217946504698
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5207609916191897
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8195257143473418
- Mean Citation Score: 261.830842
- Max Citation Score: 338.48218
- Similarity Product: 249.9668703450871

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