PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916839
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "021000"]

Abstract:
A system of modular components can be used with existing sensor suites to fuse data and determine the operating environment (surface contacts/tracks) for an autonomous marine vehicle and feed an autonomy decision engine to improve the vessel arbitration process in deciding which way to turn, how fast to go, obstacle avoidance, and mission monitoring. The system includes the ability to obey the set of navigation rules published by the International Maritime Organization, generally referred to as COLREGS (collision regulations).

Claim (Index 9):
An autonomous navigation system for directing an autonomous maritime vehicle, the system comprising:\n multiple sensors located on the autonomous maritime vehicle; a sensor data fusion architecture including a sensor processing module and a track processing module; wherein the sensor processing module receives data inputs from the multiple sensors, the data inputs providing information relevant to identification of maritime vessels within an operational range of the autonomous maritime vehicle and useful for determining a predicted track of each of the identified maritime vessels by a Multi-Hypothesis Tracking (MHT) algorithm of the track processing module; wherein the track processing module includes one or more tracking filters selected from the following group consisting of Kalman Filters, Interacting Multiple Model Filters and Particle Filters; and further wherein the track processing module is programmed to recognize when the information from the data inputs associated with the identified maritime vessels indicates multiple tracks for a single identified maritime vessel and combines the multiple tracks to a single predicted track for the single identified maritime vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.28986
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14968161', '15635106', '15007788', '13416069', '13523747']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4304386032871696
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.635993698514134
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.450994112809866
- Mean Citation Score: 281.90619
- Max Citation Score: 659.5979
- Similarity Product: 556.8704175587355

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