PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16102488
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["340", "435000"]

Abstract:
This invention relates in general to the field of safety devices, and more particularly, but not by way of limitation, to systems and methods for providing advanced warning and risk evasion when hazardous conditions exist. In one embodiment, a vicinity monitoring unit is provided for monitoring, for example, oncoming traffic near a construction zone. In some embodiments, the vicinity monitoring unit may be mounted onto a construction vehicle to monitor nearby traffic and send a warning signal if hazardous conditions exist. In some embodiments, personnel tracking units may be worn by construction workers and the personnel tracking units may be in communication with the vicinity monitoring unit. In some embodiments, a base station is provided for monitoring activities taking place in or near a construction site including monitoring the locations of various personnel and vehicles within the construction site.

Claim (Index 1):
An advanced warning and risk evasion system comprising:\n a vicinity monitoring unit having a sensor, the sensor comprising a transmitter and a receiver configured to detect objects travelling through the sensor's field of view; a processor communicatively connected to the sensor and configured to utilize information received from the sensor to calculate a velocity of each of the detected objects and a location of each of the detected objects' position relative to the vicinity monitoring unit; the processor configured to identify traffic patterns based at least in part on a frequency and direction of travel of the detected objects over time, the traffic patterns including at least one traffic area corresponding to an area where a higher number of detected objects pass through over time relative to other areas; the processor further configured to identify protected areas corresponding to regions where the detected objects are not allowed to enter and to detect a hazardous situation when entrance into one of the protected areas by one of the detected objects is imminent; and wherein the vicinity monitoring unit is configured to transmit a warning signal upon receiving an indication from the processor that the hazardous situation has been detected.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93671
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15682500', '15180924', '14500778', '11609669', '11874732']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.668291387613817
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.596599932734537
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6611222421258891
- Mean Citation Score: 331.148678
- Max Citation Score: 483.5693
- Similarity Product: 454.3260846540212

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