PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16152805
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["381", "086000"]

Abstract:
A Shipboard Auditory Sensor (SAS) for detection and classification of acoustic signaling at sea is capable of detecting whistles blasts from other vessels in accordance with Rules 34 and 35 of COLREGS to support autonomous operations in a maritime environment.

Claim (Index 1):
A shipboard auditory sensor system located on a first maritime vessel for processing audio signals from one or more additional maritime vessels in a vicinity of the first vessel to support navigation thereof, the shipboard auditory sensor system comprising:\n an auditory sensor assembly including a microphone sensor array for sensing audio signals from the one or more maritime vessels, the auditory sensor assembly including a microphone array housing having a top and bottom plate separated by multiple spacers with the microphone array affixed to an inside facing surface of one of the top and bottom plates; wherein the microphone sensor array includes multiple individual microphone assemblies, each of the individual microphone assemblies including a microphone housing with a pre-amplifier and a microphone therein.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.10256
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15635106', '15007788', '15916839', '14968161', '10630620']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6667264408519756
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6066916661330454
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6607229633800826
- Mean Citation Score: 320.410478
- Max Citation Score: 534.73676
- Similarity Product: 476.1799979635857

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