PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936838
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "118000"]

Abstract:
An imaging connection device is provided for use with a vehicle and a trailer. The vehicle includes a hitch assembly, a wired vehicle interface, and a vehicle communications unit, and the trailer includes a tow assembly and a wire harness. The imaging connection device includes a housing defining a first connector configured to mate with the wired vehicle interface and a second connector configured to mate with the wire harness; a connector interface at least partially arranged within the housing and extending between the first connector and the second connector; a camera unit at least partially arranged within the housing and configured to capture image data representing a side view of the hitch assembly; and a wireless communications unit at least partially arranged within the housing and configured to transmit the image data captured by the camera unit to the vehicle communications unit for display on a display device.

Claim (Index 7):
A hitching system for hitching a vehicle to a trailer, comprising:\n a hitch assembly mounted to the vehicle; a tow assembly mounted to the trailer and configured to be mechanically secured to the hitch assembly during a hitching operation; a wired interface arranged on the vehicle and coupled to a power source in the vehicle; a wire harness with a first end extending from the trailer; and an imaging connection device comprising:\n a housing defining a first connector and a second connector, the first connector configured to mate with the wired vehicle interface and the second connector configured to mate with the first end of the wire harness; \n a connector interface at least partially arranged within the housing and extending between the first connector and the second connector such that the wired vehicle interface is electrically coupled to the wire harness; \n a camera unit at least partially arranged within the housing and configured to capture side view image data representing a side view of the hitch assembly; and \n a first communications unit at least partially arranged within the housing and configured to transmit the side view image data captured by the camera unit to a second communications unit for display on a display device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77193
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10886216', '14955638', '13403732', '13825896', '11747835']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6343775689655794
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4887343231789914
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6198132443869206
- Mean Citation Score: 226.314628
- Max Citation Score: 246.61246
- Similarity Product: 197.10221744418143

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