PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859869
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "284000"]

Abstract:
An irrigation system for providing irrigation to a crop comprising a plurality of mobile support towers, a conduit, a plurality of drive motors, a plurality of sensors, and a control system. The conduit carries fluid and is supported by the mobile support towers. The conduit includes a valve which can be opened to allow fluid flow through the conduit and closed to prevent fluid flow through the conduit. The drive motors propel the mobile support towers. The sensors generate data regarding the amount of fluid used to irrigate the crop. The control system controls the operation of the valve and the drive motors and is configured to calculate a price of forecasted yield loss, calculate a cost of irrigation, and terminate irrigation if the cost of irrigation is greater than the price of the forecasted yield loss.

Claim (Index 15):
A control system for determining yield losses for an irrigated crop, the control system comprising:\n a communication element configured to send data to and receive data from a data server and an irrigation apparatus; a memory element configured to store data from the data server; and a processing element in electronic communication with the communication element and the memory element, the processing element configured to\n calculate a total stress-adjusted crop water usage for a first time period of past days as a sum of a plurality of per-day stress-adjusted crop water usage, \n calculate a total no-stress crop water usage for the first time period of past days as a sum of a plurality of per-day no-stress crop water usage, \n calculate a forecasted stress-adjusted crop water usage for a first time period of future days as a sum of a plurality of per-day stress-adjusted crop water usage, \n calculate a forecasted non-irrigation crop water usage as a sum of the total stress-adjusted crop water usage for the first time period of past days and the forecasted stress-adjusted crop water usage for the first time period of future days, \n calculate a forecasted no-stress crop water usage for the first time period of future days as a sum of a plurality of per-day no-stress crop water usage, \n calculate a forecasted scheduled-irrigation crop water usage as a sum of the total no-stress crop water usage for the first time period of past days and the forecasted no-stress crop water usage for the first time period of future days, and \n calculate a potential forecasted yield loss as the crop specific yield response factor times a difference of 1 and a quotient of the forecasted non-irrigation crop water usage and the forecasted scheduled-irrigation crop water usage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48333
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13455971', '14959986', '13263044', '15229968', '10344013']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.344057410371424
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5006899812149882
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3597206674557805
- Mean Citation Score: 196.9225
- Max Citation Score: 242.69386
- Similarity Product: 165.85814964960812

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