PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16243618
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["701", "029000"]

Abstract:
An Electronic Stability Control (ESC) system for a vehicle is disclosed. An electronic control unit (ECU) is programmed to reduce vehicle lateral skidding by reducing differences between an intended vehicle direction and/or yaw rate and an actual vehicle direction and/or yaw rate by applying modifications to operation of the vehicle brakes and/or throttle. The ESC system receives inputs from wheel speed sensors, a steering wheel position sensor, a yaw rate sensor and a lateral acceleration sensor. The ESC system also receives input that indicates at least a property of the road upon which the vehicle is located, wherein the road upon which the vehicle is located is determined from a positioning system that uses a map database and the property is determined from the map database. The ESC system incorporates the road property information in determining when and/or how to modify operation of the vehicle to reduce vehicle skidding.

Claim (Index 13):
The system of  claim 11  wherein the determination that the operation of the vehicle is unintended further comprises determining, based on the at least one aspect sensed by the at least one sensor, that the brakes are applied when the property of the portion of the road upon which the vehicle is located that is ahead of the position of the vehicle indicates an uphill, that the brakes are not applied when the property of the portion of the road upon which the vehicle is located that is ahead of the position of the vehicle indicates a downhill, that the accelerator is applied when the property of the portion of the road upon which the vehicle is located that is ahead of the position of the vehicle indicates a downhill, that the steering wheel is being turned when the property of the portion of the road upon which the vehicle is located that is ahead of the position of the vehicle indicates a straight path, that the steering wheel is not being turned when the property of the portion of the road upon which the vehicle is located that is ahead of the position of the vehicle indicates a curved path, that the steering wheel is being turned in a particular direction when the property of the portion of the road upon which the vehicle is located that is ahead of the position of the vehicle indicates a curved path in a direction opposite the particular direction, a high vehicle speed when the property of the portion of the road upon which the vehicle is located that is ahead of the position of the vehicle indicates a speed limit different than the vehicle speed, or a rapid change in speed or direction of the vehicle when the property of the portion of the road upon which the vehicle is located that is ahead of the position of the vehicle indicates a low friction surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0641
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15342840', '14101780', '15060951', '12798758', '12798788']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5639323276720947
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5468586181805764
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5622249567229429
- Mean Citation Score: 380.976698
- Max Citation Score: 399.62177
- Similarity Product: 381.8866950970131

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

Dataset: test