PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200972
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["315", "082000"]

Abstract:
A method for operating a vehicle comprising at least one light source designed to emit light for illuminating the surroundings of the vehicle is described. The method comprises the following steps: determining whether a road user approaches the vehicle to within a predetermined distance; determining the distance between the road user and the vehicle; and illuminating the surroundings of the vehicle by use of the at least one light source at the side of the vehicle from which the road user approaches the vehicle should the distance between the road user and the vehicle drop below a first threshold distance.

Claim (Index 6):
The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein determining a road user approaching the vehicle to within a set distance is carried out by use of at least one detector and/or vehicle-to-vehicle communication and/or communication between the vehicle and a mobile appliance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1875
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15205428', '15667880', '13452130', '13839514', '14492169']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7328582156960834
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4962936992809191
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7092017640545671
- Mean Citation Score: 172.60118399999996
- Max Citation Score: 191.08165
- Similarity Product: 123.4158927514404

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