PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905713
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "004000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for operating an automated aerial vehicle are provided wherein influences of ground effects (e.g., which may increase the effective thrusts of propellers by interfering with the respective airflows) are utilized for sensing the ground or other surfaces. In various implementations, operating parameters of the automated aerial vehicle are monitored to determine when ground effects are influencing the parameters associated with each of the propellers, which correspondingly indicate proximities to a surface (e.g., the ground). Utilizing such techniques, proximities of different portions of an automated aerial vehicle to the ground or other surfaces may be determined (e.g., for detecting issues with an uneven landing area, a sloped ground, etc.).

Claim (Index 34):
A computer-implemented method for operating an automated aerial vehicle, comprising:\n under control of one or more computing systems configured with executable instructions,\n controlling a plurality of propeller motors for flying the automated aerial vehicle along a flight path, each of the propeller motors rotating a respective propeller; and \n determining that a first proximity of a first portion of the automated aerial vehicle to a surface is different than a second proximity of a second portion of the automated aerial vehicle to the surface based at least in part on one or more parameter levels, wherein each parameter level of the one or more parameter levels is associated with a respective propeller and is influenced by a respective ground effect, and each ground effect corresponds to a condition in which an airflow of the respective propeller is directed against a surface which increases an effective thrust of the respective propeller and which influences the respective parameter level.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88406
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15606807', '14315952', '15369527', '14315944', '15434741']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4076007504943991
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5078137071378704
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4176220461587462
- Mean Citation Score: 248.09298
- Max Citation Score: 297.4741
- Similarity Product: 244.82618850988752

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