PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869634
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["701", "004000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a novel system and method for adjusting a flight path of an aircraft. The method begins with computing a flight path of an aircraft from a starting point to an ending point which incorporates predicted weather effects at different points in space and time. An iterative loop is entered for the flight path. Each of the following steps are performed in the iterative loop. First lift data is accessed from a fine-grain weather model associated with a geographic region of interest. The lift data is data to calculate a force that directly opposes a weight of the aircraft. In addition, lift data is accessed from sensors coupled to the aircraft. The lift data is one or more of 1) thermal data, 2) ridge lift data, 3) wave lift data, 3) convergence lift data, and 4) a dynamic soaring lift data. Numerous embodiments are disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
A computer-implemented method for adjusting a flight path of an aircraft, the method comprising:\n computing a flight path of an aircraft from a starting point to an ending point which incorporates predicted weather effects at different points in space and time; during a flight path performing each of:\n accessing lift data from a fine-grained weather model associated with a geographic region of interest, the lift data being data to calculate a force that directly opposes a weight of the aircraft, and the fine-grained weather model providing weather to the geographic region of interest being less than a kilometer with a type of lift from categories of a ridge lift, a wave lift, and a dynamic soaring lift along with a time period in minutes in which the lift data for the type of lift is applicable; \n computing adjustments to the flight path based on the lift data from the fine-grain weather model and the lift data from sensors; and \n adjusting the flight path using the adjustments that have been computed, wherein the adjusting the flight path based on a combination of the lift data from the fine-grained weather model further includes using lift data from a group of people that elect to share data for a specific flight path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98795
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14133756', '15188321', '15446522', '12679624', '15249508']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3993998629891473
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5472824888495471
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4141881255751873
- Mean Citation Score: 199.804678
- Max Citation Score: 397.7644
- Similarity Product: 393.8628170006753

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

Dataset: test