PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055282
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["248", "228100"]

Abstract:
A device for allowing work to be carried out on or about an object includes at least one gripping arrangement. The at least one gripping arrangement is configured to grip and traverse the object so as to reach a desired location on the object and to anchor the device thereto for allowing the work to be carried out.

Claim (Index 13):
A device for allowing work to be carried out on or about an object, the device including:\n a gripping arrangement comprising a first gripping portion which is pivotally and rotatably coupled to at least one second gripping portion by way of a manipulatable arm arrangement, the first and at least one second gripping portions each comprising a pair of grappling legs coupled to respective rotary actuators, the rotary actuators operable to move the grappling legs between a closed state and an open state for respectively securing the gripping portion to and releasing the gripping portion from the object; and a controller for controlling the manipulatable arm arrangement and respective rotary actuators so as to allow the device to traverse the object for allowing work to be carried out, whereby the traversing is effected by securing one of the respective gripping portions to the object while another is pivotably and/or rotatably moved to a desired location on the object for subsequently securing thereto and wherein the control unit is further configured to monitor and control the amount of gripping force applied by each of the rotary actuators to the object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 248.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15355097', '13880140', '14960787', '13845359', '13305197']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8300036649082325
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5268973590067599
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7996930343180852
- Mean Citation Score: 279.45375
- Max Citation Score: 370.65192
- Similarity Product: 339.4750976365757

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

Dataset: test