PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044192
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["701", "011000"]

Abstract:
An obstacle-avoidance system for a vehicle, the obstacle-avoidance system may comprise: a communication device; a plurality of sensors, the plurality of sensors configured to detect collision threats within a predetermined distance of the vehicle; and a processor. The processor may communicatively couple to the communication device and the plurality of sensors and configured to receive navigation commands being communicated to a control system via said communication device. The processor may also receive, from at least one of said plurality of sensors, obstruction data reflecting the position of an obstruction. Using the obstruction data, the processor identifies a direction for avoiding said obstruction. In response, the processor may output, via said communication device, a derivative command to said control system causing the vehicle to travel in said flight direction.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of navigating an aerial vehicle having a flight-control system, the method comprising the steps of:\n detecting, via one or more sensors, collision threats within a field of view of the one or more sensors of the aerial vehicle, wherein the one or more sensors are communicatively coupled with a processor; receiving, via the processor, a navigation command from the flight-control system; generating, using at least one of said one or more sensors, obstruction data reflecting a position of a collision threat; generating, via the processor, a derivative command as a function of the obstruction data, wherein the derivative command is generated by attenuating the navigation command as a function of the position of the collision threat; and communicating the derivative command to the flight-control system to cause the aerial vehicle to deviate from the flight path to avoid the collision threat.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32258
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15291892', '14638255', '15863529', '15340404', '15088645']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4608105142359041
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5292390243270312
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4676533652450168
- Mean Citation Score: 321.06770400000005
- Max Citation Score: 432.96863
- Similarity Product: 392.9074567956477

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