PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905713
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "004000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for operating an automated aerial vehicle are provided wherein influences of ground effects (e.g., which may increase the effective thrusts of propellers by interfering with the respective airflows) are utilized for sensing the ground or other surfaces. In various implementations, operating parameters of the automated aerial vehicle are monitored to determine when ground effects are influencing the parameters associated with each of the propellers, which correspondingly indicate proximities to a surface (e.g., the ground). Utilizing such techniques, proximities of different portions of an automated aerial vehicle to the ground or other surfaces may be determined (e.g., for detecting issues with an uneven landing area, a sloped ground, etc.).

Claim (Index 26):
The automated aerial vehicle of  claim 21 , further comprising a third propeller and a third propeller motor that rotates the third propeller, wherein the power supply provides power to the third propeller motor and the program instructions when executed by the one or more processors further cause the one or more processors to:\n control the third propeller motor to rotate the third propeller, wherein a third parameter is associated with the third propeller and a level of the third parameter is influenced by a third ground effect, the third ground effect corresponding to a condition in which an airflow of the third propeller is directed against a surface which increases an effective thrust of the third propeller and which influences a level of the third parameter; and determine that the first proximity of the first portion of the automated aerial vehicle is different than a third proximity of a third portion of the automated aerial vehicle to the surface based at least in part on a difference between a level of the first parameter as influenced by the first ground effect and a level of the third parameter as influenced by the third ground effect.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88406
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15606807', '14315952', '15369527', '14315944', '15434741']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4076746622744837
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.507318944536288
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4176390905006641
- Mean Citation Score: 248.09298
- Max Citation Score: 297.4741
- Similarity Product: 247.3718049302161

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

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