PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882643
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["180", "008100"]

Abstract:
An adaptable wheel has a central hub, radial segments connected to the central hub at a proximal end and extending radially from the central hub, each radial segment having a linear actuator configured to change a length of the radial segment; a shoe connected to a distal end of the radial segment for contacting a surface being traversed by the wheel; and a locking mechanism for selectively preventing linear motion of the linear actuator. A control system for an adaptable wheel includes a distance sensor on a vehicle for determining distance to a surface in the path of the vehicle and a computer for receiving distance information from the distance sensor and, responsive to the distance information, determine a desired length of a segment of an adaptable wheel for maintaining a hub of a wheel level, and provide control signals to a linear actuator of the segment.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein the plurality of locking mechanisms are configured to utilize only the friction force between the opposing surfaces to maintain the positions of the spokes relative to the fixed portions of the linear actuators.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36364
- Patent Class: 180.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14214109', '13573080', '14545914', '15469542', '13969290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7695141697842572
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5131837906721864
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7438811318730503
- Mean Citation Score: 179.85081
- Max Citation Score: 299.12848
- Similarity Product: 213.99342427817348

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

Dataset: test