PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16430058
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["244", "173300"]

Abstract:
In an example, a spacecraft system includes a plurality of spacecraft in a stack. The stack has one or more layers, each layer includes at least two spacecraft, and each spacecraft is releasably coupled to one or more adjacent spacecraft in the stack. The spacecraft system also includes a controller configured to, for each layer, (i) cause the layer to release from the stack, and (ii) after the layer releases from the stack, cause the at least two spacecraft in the layer to release from each other.

Claim (Index 1):
A spacecraft system, comprising:\n a plurality of spacecraft in an arrangement, wherein the arrangement has one or more layers, each layer includes at least two spacecraft, and each spacecraft is releasably and directly coupled to one or more adjacent spacecraft in the arrangement; a plurality of releasable fasteners, wherein each releasable fastener releasably couples a respective one of the plurality of spacecraft to a respective one of the one or more adjacent spacecraft in the arrangement; and a controller configured to perform a set of acts, wherein the set of acts comprise, for each layer:\n cause the layer to release from a launch vehicle, and \n after the layer releases from the launch vehicle, cause the at least two spacecraft in the layer to release from each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24444
- Patent Class: 244.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15373166', '15689993', '15351233', '15488166', '15616803']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8340082883761031
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5117618558832865
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8017836451268214
- Mean Citation Score: 212.391094
- Max Citation Score: 346.70062
- Similarity Product: 341.3539730108572

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