PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942796
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["204", "547000"]

Abstract:
A propulsion system for an orbiting vehicle such as a low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite includes a set of surfaces over which a gas passes during orbital flight, and a plurality of electrodes on the surfaces. The electrodes are configured to create an electric field having a spatial field pattern in response to field signals, experienced by passing gas molecules as an oscillating field having a frequency on the order of a polarization-resonance frequency of the molecules to impart a propulsive traveling-wave dielectrophoretic force to the passing molecules. The electrodes extend over sufficient area to impart sufficient traveling-wave dielectrophoretic force to the gas to overcome aerodynamic drag and thereby sustain orbital flight of the vehicle. A power source applies the field signals to the electrodes, providing sufficient power to overcome power lost to aerodynamic drag and thereby sustain orbital flight.

Claim (Index 1):
A traveling-wave dielectrophoresis propulsion system for an orbiting vehicle, comprising:\n a set of surfaces over which a gas passes during orbital flight of the vehicle; a plurality of electrodes on the surfaces, the electrodes configured to create an electric field having a predetermined spatial field pattern in response to field signals applied thereto, the spatial field pattern being experienced by passing molecules of the gas as an oscillating field having a frequency on the order of a polarization-resonance frequency of the molecules to impart a propulsive traveling-wave dielectrophoretic force to the passing molecules, the electrodes extending over sufficient area to impart sufficient traveling-wave dielectrophoretic force to the gas to overcome aerodynamic drag and thereby sustain orbital flight of the vehicle; and a power source configured and operative to apply the field signals to the electrodes, the power source providing sufficient power to overcome power lost to aerodynamic drag and thereby sustain orbital flight of the vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0274
- Patent Class: 204.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15868794', '10698847', '11609268', '15582152', '12847988']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7814316685665375
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4808389945932853
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7513724011692123
- Mean Citation Score: 165.710104
- Max Citation Score: 181.92348
- Similarity Product: 126.83685512532948

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

Dataset: test