PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16054978
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods enable a failsafe for a trailer brake controller (TBC), by using a camera to detect braking of the towing vehicle. The methods can include using a vehicle-facing camera mounted to a trailer to detecting light emitted from rear brake lights at the towing vehicle. Then, the methods can determine whether the brakes of the towing vehicle are being engaged, based on the light detected by the vehicle-facing camera. Also, a TBC failure can be determined, and as a result, a trailer brake activation signal can be communicated at the trailer side, as a failsafe to activate the brakes of the trailer.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 6 , wherein determining the failure to sense the brake command signal comprises failing to sense the brake command signal being received by the brakes of the non-motorized vehicle in the event of a malfunction of the communicative coupling between the non-motorized vehicle and the trailer brake controller at the motor vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01724
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14089381', '13964661', '12594462', '13933513', '15143290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6186186852895074
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4999848894985542
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.606755305710412
- Mean Citation Score: 253.283978
- Max Citation Score: 267.3661
- Similarity Product: 181.60313309617044

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

Dataset: test