PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049420
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["705", "341000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided that provide for validating products to be delivered to customers via unmanned aerial vehicles. Each UAV includes sensors configured to detect at least one actual physical characteristic and/or actual identifying characteristic of a product being loaded into the UAV and/or being transported by the UAV to a delivery destination. The actual physical characteristic information and/or the actual identifying information detected by the sensors is compared to predefined physical characteristic information and/or predefined identifying information stored in an electronic database in order to validate that the product that is being loaded into the UAV and/or being transported by the UAV is not damaged and corresponds to the order being fulfilled. If validation of one or more products is not successful, the UAV is restricted from delivering such products to the delivery destination.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for validating products to be delivered to customers via unmanned aerial vehicles, the system comprising:\n at least one unmanned aerial vehicle including:\n a receptacle configured to retain at least one product after the at least one product is loaded therein; \n at least one sensor configured to detect a physical characteristic of the at least one product; \n an electronic database including data indicating predefined physical characteristic information associated with the at least one product, the predefined physical characteristic information corresponding to the at least one product when in a new condition and undamaged; and a processor-based computing device in communication with the at least one sensor and the electronic database, the computing device being configured to:\n obtain data indicating actual physical characteristic information associated with the at least one product, the actual physical characteristic information corresponding to the at least one product when detected by the at least one sensor; and \n based on the obtained data, to:\n compare the data indicating the actual physical characteristic information associated with the at least one product detected by the at least one sensor to the data stored in the electronic database indicating the predefined physical characteristic information associated with the at least one product in order to validate that the at least one product detected by the second sensor is undamaged; and \n restrict the at least one unmanned aerial vehicle from delivering to a customer the at least one product detected by the at least one sensor in response to a determination, by the computing device, that the at least one product is in a damaged condition.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95946
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16011932', '15584322', '15882692', '14860215', '14576066']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1018204825687942
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4840853008604249
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1400469643979573
- Mean Citation Score: 156.53841599999996
- Max Citation Score: 183.43707
- Similarity Product: 124.68189531668186

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

Dataset: test