PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952108
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["385", "136000"]

Abstract:
The invention provides a holding device comprising a locking member having a longitudinal axis, an external surface and a first end, an actuator for displacing said locking member along its longitudinal axis between a holding position and a released position, a guiding part, for engaging said external surface of said locking member and guiding its displacement functionally along its longitudinal axis, and an alignment sensor for detecting alignment with another device having a complementary guiding part, complementary with said locking member, said alignment sensor functionally coupled with said actuator for displacing said locking member when alignment with said complementary guiding part is sensed.

Claim (Index 13):
A method for holding objects together using holding devices, each holding device comprising:\n a locking member having a longitudinal axis, an external surface and a first end; an actuator for displacing said locking member along its longitudinal axis between a holding position and a released position; a guiding part, for engaging said external surface of said locking member and guiding its displacement functionally along its longitudinal axis; an alignment sensor for detecting alignment with another device having a complementary guiding part, complementary with said locking member, said alignment sensor functionally coupled with said actuator for allowing displacing said locking member when alignment with said complementary guiding part is sensed; a light guiding part extending in at least part of said locking member, extending functionally parallel to said longitudinal axis, and having a first light guiding part end at said first locking member end; a light source for optically coupling light into said light guiding part for providing light source light at said first light guiding part end; and a light detector, optically coupled to said light guiding part for detecting light entering said light guiding part at said first light guiding part end; the method comprising, for a first object comprising a first holding device and a second object comprising a second holding device, said first holding device: determining alignment with said second holding device using transmission of light from its light source through its light guiding part and detecting light from its light guiding part using its light detector; and activating its actuator for displacing its locking member into the guiding part of said second holding device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46667
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14203503', '14052435', '13843340', '12742071', '14365918']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8058067625706945
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4912083829385076
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7743469246074758
- Mean Citation Score: 174.52926599999995
- Max Citation Score: 216.11148
- Similarity Product: 149.96786880869865

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