PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007883
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "158000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides methods and apparatuses related to applying darts, such as tranquilizers and inoculations, to animals, and more particularly to such application in conditions where human presence in proximity to the animal is undesirable. Example embodiments of the present invention allow darts to be projected to animals while a human operator controls the device from a remote location. The remote location of the human operator reduces the need to chase or otherwise stress the animals. Inclusion of a human operator, as compared to fully automatic systems, reduces the chance of projecting darts to wrong targets such as incorrect species, reduces the chance of malfunction or damage to the system, and provides an ability to monitor in real time the application and effect of the darts.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of injecting a substance into a target animal, comprising:\n (a) supplying an apparatus comprising: (a1) a stable base; (a2) a moveable element mounted with the stable base and configured to allow motion in at least one dimension; (a3) a dart projection subsystem mounted with the moveable element, configured to project a dart along a predictable trajectory, and a dart mounted therein, wherein the dart has a distal tip configured to penetrate the skin of an animal; (a4) a video capture device mounted with the stable base or the moveable element, configured to collect one or more video images; (a5) a communications subsystem, configured to transmit video information from the video capture device to a remote user, and to accept direction from the remote user to move the moveable element and to fire the dart projection subsystem; (b) monitoring the video information transmitted by the communications subsystem to determine when a desired target animal is within an effective range of the dart projection subsystem; (c) when a desired target animal is within the effective range, then moving the moveable element according to direction from a user remote from the dart projection subsystem such that a predicted trajectory of a dart projected from the dart projection subsystem will impact the target animal; (d) firing the dart projection subsystem according to direction from a user remote from the dart projection subsystem and thereby projecting the dart into the target animal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94366
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16004016', '10489871', '15718917', '12169446', '13948964']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5250478121758292
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.473726490176937
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.51991567997594
- Mean Citation Score: 105.989768
- Max Citation Score: 156.4319
- Similarity Product: 118.11692764496208

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

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