PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942382
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["600", "592000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for detecting lameness in a limb of an animal are described herein. In an embodiment, a lameness detection system comprises a plurality of wearable footwear elements. Each of the footwear elements comprises a housing that is configured to fit snugly on a paw of the animal during ordinary gait. Each of the footwear elements comprise a sensor or matrix of sensors that is configured to detect and generate data representative of pressure or force exerted by the paw on a ground surface. Each footwear element additionally comprises a wireless transceiver that is configured for short-distance communication of the data captured by the sensors. The system further comprises a computing device with a wireless transceiver configured to communicate with the transceivers of the footwear elements and instructions which, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to analyze lameness in a limb of the animal based on data received from the sensors.

Claim (Index 8):
The data processing method of  claim 7 , wherein determining whether a limb of the animal is affected by lameness comprises:\n computing an average pressure or force exerted by the first paw and an average pressure or force exerted by the second paw between the start time of the movement event and the stop time of the movement event; computing a difference between the average pressure or force exerted by the first paw and the average pressure or force exerted by the second paw; and determining that the computed difference is greater than a stored threshold value and, in response, determining that the limb is affected by lameness.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11538
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11780881', '14094200', '12687961', '14705251', '11746889']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5022254783930917
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4889466748290338
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5008975980366859
- Mean Citation Score: 179.15691400000003
- Max Citation Score: 216.50156
- Similarity Product: 148.91848137787818

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

Dataset: test