PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032931
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["701", "117000"]

Abstract:
A control system and method identify a first vehicle system that is traveling from a first location toward a different, second location, and a second vehicle system for combining with the first vehicle system into a convoy of vehicle systems. The system and method also direct the first and second vehicle systems to couple with each other for travel as the convoy. The system and method direct one or more of the second vehicle system of the convoy to separate from the convoy and/or a third vehicle system that is outside of the convoy to join the convoy by coupling with one or more of the first vehicle system or the second vehicle system in the convoy in at least one intermediate location between the first location and the second location.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n directing a fourth vehicle system to join the convoy at another intermediate location between the first and second locations, wherein the fourth vehicle system leaves the convoy prior to the convoy reaching the second location and travels to a third location.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15583123', '15248961', '14631495', '14798678', '14693075']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4483608396121984
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5271926537046492
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4562440210214434
- Mean Citation Score: 222.308916
- Max Citation Score: 358.339
- Similarity Product: 230.8540397604108

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