PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16256327
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["356", "239200"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for contamination prevention of vehicle cameras and sensors. An example vehicle includes an exterior, a camera along the exterior and including a lens, and a controller. The controller is to determine, based upon images captured by the camera, whether a contaminant is approaching the lens and identify a contaminant state upon determining the contaminant is approaching the lens. The example vehicle also includes a nozzle to spray washer fluid to prevent contamination of the lens responsive to the controller identifying that the contaminant is a liquid.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 11 , including actuating, by the processor, a shield to a closed position responsive to determining that the nozzle is unable to spray the washer fluid to prevent contamination of the lens; wherein the shield actuates between an open position and the closed position, the shield is housed adjacent to the camera at the open position, the shield covers the lens to prevent the contaminant from contacting the lens at the closed position, and the shield is transparent to enable the camera to capture the images when the shield is in the closed position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94118
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15670691', '14320734', '14086746', '14004269', '15303329']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6713042161839073
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5347585696385666
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6576496515293734
- Mean Citation Score: 189.061748
- Max Citation Score: 349.65714
- Similarity Product: 259.04364902812955

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