PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16144256
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["404", "006000"]

Abstract:
Surrogates for roadside objects, such as metal guardrails, can be used for vehicle testing. A surrogate for a metal guardrail can have substantially the same size and/or shape as the metal guardrail that the surrogate is mimicking. The surrogate can be configured to exhibit substantially the same characteristics as their actual counterpart metal guardrail when sensed by one or more vehicle sensors (e.g., cameras, radar sensors, and/or LIDAR sensors). Such surrogates can be used to test autonomous vehicles, one or more vehicle sensors, a vehicle sensor system, and/or one or more vehicle system (e.g., a road departure mitigation system). The surrogates can be configured to withstand being crashed into by a test vehicle without being damaged and without damaging the test vehicle.

Claim (Index 20):
The metal guardrail surrogate of  claim 14 , wherein the skin is configured to exhibit substantially the same infrared reflectivity as a main body of a metal guardrail at a reflectance angle of from substantially 20 degrees to substantially 70 degrees.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05882
- Patent Class: 404.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16144301', '13131279', '11842736', '13584991', '12367317']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7328036155381015
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5148627611566908
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7110095300999604
- Mean Citation Score: 170.19492999999997
- Max Citation Score: 278.68347
- Similarity Product: 184.561561532346

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