PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944545
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "003000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for autonomous generation of shortest lateral paths for unmanned aerial systems are described. An example system includes memory storing code and at least one processor to execute the code to cause the at least one processor to access an initial scenario including a source point, a target point, and a no flight zone, determine a computation time for identifying a lateral path for an aircraft to traverse that avoids the no flight zone, determine whether the determined computation time satisfies a threshold of a reference computation time, change the first number of vertices to a second number of vertices when the reference computation time is not satisfied, determine a buffer area surrounding the no flight zone, construct a visibility graph including lateral paths, and identify one of the lateral paths as being shorter than others of the lateral paths.

Claim (Index 20):
A system, comprising:\n memory storing computer readable code; and at least one processor to execute the computer readable code to cause the at least one processor to:\n determine an initial path estimate between a source point and a target point associated with a flight of an aircraft; \n identify a first no flight zone and a second no flight zone; \n determine a first buffer area surrounding the first no flight zone and a second buffer area surrounding the second no flight zone, wherein the first buffer area is defined by an offset distance from a perimeter of the first no flight zone and the second buffer area is defined by an offset distance from a perimeter of the second no flight zone; \n identify an overlap between the first no flight zone including the first buffer area and the second no flight zone including the second buffer area; \n merge the first no flight zone including the first buffer area and the second no flight zone including the second buffer area into a third no flight zone including a third buffer area when the overlap is identified; \n construct a visibility graph including lateral paths between the source point and the target point, the lateral paths not passing through the third no flight zone including the third buffer area, the lateral paths connecting vertices of the third no flight zone; and \n identify a first lateral path of the lateral paths, the first lateral path being shorter than others of the lateral paths.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94872
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15206189', '12094656', '13909075', '15038026', '14887954']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4100862805593712
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5315197777787585
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4222296302813099
- Mean Citation Score: 208.265396
- Max Citation Score: 377.50876
- Similarity Product: 328.7029083218813

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test