PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16153132
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["700", "098000"]

Abstract:
A workpiece having at least one physical feature is placed into a workstation fixture having at least one adjustable locator. Measurement data reflecting the position of the at least one physical feature of the workpiece and measurement data reflecting the position of the at least one adjustable locator are obtained. A processor ingests and utilizes the collection of assembly data and the measurement data to define and store in memory at least one ordered pair correlating the physical feature and the adjustable locator. The processor defines a test vector that connects the position of the at least one physical feature and the position of the at least one adjustable locator. The processor to computationally discovers a best fit for adjusting the position of the adjustable locator to register with the physical feature by applying to the test vector a computational optimization process that seeks to minimize the length of the test vector to thereby generate a digital shim vector. The adjustable locator is then physically moved according to the digital shim vector, which is stored in association with the collection of assembly data.

Claim (Index 21):
A method for aligning a first workpiece to a second workpiece in a fixture of a workstation, wherein the first workpiece has a first set of physical features and is mounted to a frame of the fixture and the second workpiece has a second set of physical features and is mounted to the frame, comprising:\n receiving, by a computer processor, measurement data reflecting the position of the physical features in the first set of physical features and the position of the physical features in the second set of physical features; receiving, by the computer processor, the collection of assembly data for the workpiece; determining, by the computer processor, a test vector that connects the measured positions of the first set of physical features to the measured positions of the second set of physical features, where the test vector has vector components represented as variables stored in memory; computationally discovering, by the computer processor, a best fit between the measured positions of the first set of physical features and the measured position of the second set of physical features by applying a computational optimization process to the test vector; computing, by the computer processor, an adjustment for position of at least one adjustable locator according to the best fit between the measured positions of the first set of physical features and the measured position of the second set of physical features, where the first workpiece is mounted via the at least one adjustable locator to the frame and the at least one adjustable locator is movable in more than one degree of freedom in relation to the frame; and moving, by at least one motor, the at least one adjustable locator in relation to the frame according to the computed adjustment position for the at least one adjustable locator, where the at least one motor is actuated in response to a signal from the computer processor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 63.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56757
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15336269', '15131131', '14422657', '12616252', '15894985']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4196062605523226
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5605107630173756
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4336967107988279
- Mean Citation Score: 277.6882979999999
- Max Citation Score: 459.92322
- Similarity Product: 394.8063376521385

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

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