PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882643
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["180", "008100"]

Abstract:
An adaptable wheel has a central hub, radial segments connected to the central hub at a proximal end and extending radially from the central hub, each radial segment having a linear actuator configured to change a length of the radial segment; a shoe connected to a distal end of the radial segment for contacting a surface being traversed by the wheel; and a locking mechanism for selectively preventing linear motion of the linear actuator. A control system for an adaptable wheel includes a distance sensor on a vehicle for determining distance to a surface in the path of the vehicle and a computer for receiving distance information from the distance sensor and, responsive to the distance information, determine a desired length of a segment of an adaptable wheel for maintaining a hub of a wheel level, and provide control signals to a linear actuator of the segment.

Claim (Index 16):
The vehicle wheel system of  claim 14 , wherein the travel condition comprises an indication of a level grade of the surface the wheels are traversing, and wherein the length signal is indicative of an increased length of the plurality of radial segments.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36364
- Patent Class: 180.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14214109', '13573080', '14545914', '15469542', '13969290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7694197362111165
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5140658839109866
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7438843509811035
- Mean Citation Score: 179.85081
- Max Citation Score: 299.12848
- Similarity Product: 209.32351774480816

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