PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15763360
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["014", "071100"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides an improved method and apparatus for automatically aligning and connecting a passenger boarding bridge (PBB) with the passenger door of an aircraft or other vessel. A sensory suite module includes cameras and sensors to scan the apron for obstacles and identify an aircraft based on external features. The sensory suite module also includes one or more high-precision active laser line profilers to detect the vertical and lower edges of an aircraft door. A controller module provides precise control and movement of the distal end of the PBB and guides the distal end of the PBB to the passenger door. The system can be activated by a remote triggering panel module.

Claim (Index 20):
A system for joining a distal end of a passenger boarding bridge with an aircraft passenger door comprised of:\n a) a sensory suite module, said sensory suite module comprised of:\n a means for aircraft scanning and identification; \n a means for detecting obstacles near an embarking point or apron; \n a laser profiler for detecting a location of a gap between an aircraft fuselage and aircraft passenger door; and \n software filters to account for fog, rain or snow; \n b) a controller module, said controller module comprised of:\n a motor driver, a position sensor and an encoder; \n c) a triggering module, said triggering module comprised of:\n a remote docking trigger and an LCD panel; \n wherein said triggering module activates the sensory suite module, and \n wherein said controller module operates one or more actuators to drive the distal end of the passenger boarding bridge to the aircraft passenger door.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68056
- Patent Class: 14.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10505092', '14379099', '10394242', '14428824', '11519968']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5962247847115225
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5612514627932803
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5927274525196984
- Mean Citation Score: 208.581796
- Max Citation Score: 220.88838
- Similarity Product: 141.45840464281798

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

Dataset: test