PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874656
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["701", "054000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates generally to improving the fuel efficiency of autonomous vehicles by operating either (1) at a first effective engine displacement that takes into account noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) when the vehicle is occupied or (2) at a second effective engine displacement, without concern for occupant NVH, when the vehicle is not occupied. The second effective engine displacement is typically more fuel efficient than the first effective engine displacement, but result in a higher level of NVH compared to the first effective engine displacement.

Claim (Index 26):
An autonomous vehicle, comprising;\n an autonomous driving unit arrange to control driving of the vehicle in response to one or more inputs from sensors that sense the driving environment, the autonomous driving unit generating varying requested torque demands in response to changes in the driving environment; and an engine controller, responsive to the varying engine torque demands received from the autonomous driving unit, the engine controller configured to: selectively operate a plurality of working chambers of the engine at varying first operational firing fractions selected to meet the varying engine torque demands when the vehicle is occupied; and selectively operate the plurality of working chambers of the engine at varying second operational firing fractions selected to meet the varying engine torque demands when the vehicle is not occupied, wherein the autonomous vehicle operates in a more fuel efficient manner when not occupied compared to when occupied.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7069
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15672132', '15679419', '15679462', '15340291', '14919011']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4826625982857702
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5226053430991369
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4866568727671069
- Mean Citation Score: 304.1067220000001
- Max Citation Score: 356.82443
- Similarity Product: 259.25354845040323

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