PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16298664
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["340", "686100"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for monitoring a dock leveler are disclosed herein. One example dock leveler system for use at a doorway of a loading dock, where a body is sometimes present at the loading dock, includes a deck movable between a raised position and a lowered position. The example dock leveler system also includes a sensor having a field of view extending over the deck when the deck is in the lowered position. The sensor is in a normal state when the deck is in the lowered position while the body is off the deck, the sensor is in a triggered state when the deck is in the lowered position while the body is on the deck interrupting the field of view, and the sensor is in the triggered state when the deck is in the raised position with the deck interrupting the field of view regardless of whether the body is on or off the deck.

Claim (Index 18):
The system of  claim 17 , wherein the loading dock condition analyzer causes the deck to move from the stored position toward the operative position in response to the loading dock condition analyzer determining that: (1) the rear cargo door is in the open position; (2) the door of the doorway is in an open position; and (3) a body is not present on the deck.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14509860', '14878204', '11484413', '15189933', '14565064']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6715622285938014
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5406454983062757
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6584705555650489
- Mean Citation Score: 258.53387000000004
- Max Citation Score: 338.90082
- Similarity Product: 241.1695620430112

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