PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16420719
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["342", "159000"]

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method is provided for maximizing surveillance volume in a radar system. This includes determining saturation range probability  f sat ; determining sensitivity probability f sens ; calculating surveillance volume from multiplying the saturation range probability by the sensitivity probability as V s = f sat f sens ; and adjusting the radar system to maximize the surveillance volume.

Claim (Index 1):
A computer-implemented method in a radar system for optimizing radar performance of a transmission signal to detect a target against clutter by minimizing saturation while maintaining sensitivity, said target responding to said transmission signal as a scatterer said method comprising:\n establishing a sequence plurality of radar settings for the radar system to transmit based on expected size and speed of the target that responds to a radar, each radar setting including a power level for transmission power, a waveform duty cycle and a sensitivity reduction; determining non-saturation range probability  f sat  for said each radar setting from said sequence plurality with at least one scatterer presumed in the clutter, said non-saturation range probability denoting a portion of radar range unaffected by saturating clutter, said non-saturation range probability depending on said power level and said duty cycle for a corresponding radar setting; determining sensitivity probability f sens  of the target detection for said each radar setting from said sequence plurality in response to said sensitivity reduction; calculating surveillance volume from multiplying said saturation range probability by said sensitivity probability as V s = f sat f sens  for each said radar setting as a corresponding plurality of surveillance volumes; identifying maximum surveillance volume in said plurality of surveillance volumes V s  and its associated maximum volume radar setting; selecting the transmission signal for maximum volume duty cycle and maximum volume power level that correspond to said maximum volume radar setting for radar operation by the radar system; and emitting the transmission signal with said maximum volume duty cycle and said maximum volume power level for said radar operation by the radar system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63158
- Patent Class: 342.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11811353', '14708953', '13710131', '11672813', '11811271']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4740435204339933
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4466372843667188
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4713028968272659
- Mean Citation Score: 133.46317399999998
- Max Citation Score: 136.50064
- Similarity Product: 114.8504624886036

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

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