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 29):
The system of  claim 27 , wherein the one or more parameter levels include at least a first parameter level that is associated with a first propeller and that is influenced by a first ground effect and the program instructions when executed by the one or more processors further cause the one or more processors to fly the automated aerial vehicle along a flight path and the first ground effect reduces the amount of power required to be supplied to the propeller motor that rotates the first propeller for flying the automated aerial vehicle while the automated aerial vehicle is proximate to the surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88406
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15606807', '14315952', '15369527', '14315944', '15434741']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4369483490761323
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5077620724602665
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4440297214145457
- Mean Citation Score: 248.09298
- Max Citation Score: 297.4741
- Similarity Product: 256.911864617765

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