PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16413015
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["301", "006500"]

Abstract:
A propulsion apparatus and corresponding methods are provided. The apparatus employs weights within a spherical assembly that can rotate within the spherical assembly. Gravity, acting on the weights, causes a moment of a gravitational force to be applied to the spherical assembly, which can cause the spherical assembly to propel. The spherical assembly may also include one or more motors to rotate the weights within the spherical assembly. In some embodiments, the weights include magnetic cores and conductors. The apparatus can include magnetic windings that provide a magnetic flux through which the weights may rotate. The apparatus can also provide an electrical current to the conductors. As the weights with the magnetic cores rotate through the magnetic flux, the apparatus applies a current to the conductors. As such, a magnetic force is applied to the weights, which can propel the spherical assembly.

Claim (Index 1):
A spherical assembly comprising:\n a spherical encasing; a first motor connected to a first weight and the spherical encasing; a second motor connected to a second weight and the spherical encasing; a third motor connected to a third weight and the spherical encasing; and a controller, operatively coupled to the first motor, the second motor, and the third motor, and configured to:\n cause the first motor to rotate the first weight in a first direction at a first rotational speed based on a rotational speed of the spherical assembly; \n cause the second motor to rotate the second weight in a second direction at a second rotational speed based on the rotational speed of the spherical assembly; and \n cause the third motor to rotate the third weight in the second direction at the second rotational speed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63333
- Patent Class: 301.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15916564', '10928230', '15566998', '13831182', '09625421']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6787442185696404
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5498963347604371
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6658594301887201
- Mean Citation Score: 208.07436
- Max Citation Score: 397.92056
- Similarity Product: 383.6339324189186

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

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