PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859869
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "284000"]

Abstract:
An irrigation system for providing irrigation to a crop comprising a plurality of mobile support towers, a conduit, a plurality of drive motors, a plurality of sensors, and a control system. The conduit carries fluid and is supported by the mobile support towers. The conduit includes a valve which can be opened to allow fluid flow through the conduit and closed to prevent fluid flow through the conduit. The drive motors propel the mobile support towers. The sensors generate data regarding the amount of fluid used to irrigate the crop. The control system controls the operation of the valve and the drive motors and is configured to calculate a price of forecasted yield loss, calculate a cost of irrigation, and terminate irrigation if the cost of irrigation is greater than the price of the forecasted yield loss.

Claim (Index 1):
An irrigation system for providing irrigation to a crop, the irrigation system comprising:\n a plurality of mobile support towers; a conduit configured to carry fluid, the conduit supported by the mobile support towers and including a valve which can be opened to allow fluid flow through the conduit and closed to prevent fluid flow through the conduit; a plurality of drive configured to propel the support towers; at least one sensor configured to generate data regarding the amount of fluid used to irrigate the crop; and a control system configured to control operation of the valve and the drive motors, the control system including\n a processing element in electronic communication with a memory element, the processing element configured to\n transmit electronic signals to the valve and the drive motors according to a predetermined schedule to operate the valve and the drive motors to irrigate the crop, \n calculate a yield loss to date which determines a percentage of the crop that will be lost if the crop is irrigated according to the schedule, \n calculate a potential forecasted yield loss which determines a percentage of the crop that will be lost if irrigation is not provided according to the schedule, \n calculate a price of forecasted yield loss as a difference of the potential forecasted yield loss and the yield loss to date times a price of the crop per amount, \n calculate a cost of irrigation as an operating cost, per amount of water, of irrigating times an amount of water scheduled to be used for irrigation, and \n alter the schedule of transmission of the electronic signals to the valve and the drive motors if the cost of irrigation is greater than the price of the forecasted yield loss.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48333
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13455971', '14959986', '13263044', '15229968', '10344013']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.34402201638563
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5008631031391322
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3597061250609802
- Mean Citation Score: 196.9225
- Max Citation Score: 242.69386
- Similarity Product: 165.43968642054318

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