PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16010042
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["340", "905000"]

Abstract:
A safety system and method of providing an assisted traffic merge feature for a vehicle includes determining, with an ECU, that the vehicle is approaching a merging situation based on a first plurality of vehicle sensors. A predicted merging location is determined by the ECU based on a second plurality of vehicle sensors. An area proximate to the vehicle is monitored with at least one sensor to detect the presence of any traffic. The ECU determines if traffic will be in the merging lane when the vehicle reaches the merging location and provides a merge recommendation based upon the predicted location of traffic when the vehicle reaches the merging location.

Claim (Index 10):
A safety system for a vehicle having an assisted traffic merge feature, the system comprising:\n a first plurality of sensors to monitor the vehicle and an area proximate to the vehicle; a second plurality of sensors to monitor the vehicle and another area proximate to the vehicle; an electronic control unit connected to the first and second plurality of sensors, wherein the electronic control unit is configured with instructions for;\n determining that the vehicle is approaching a merging situation based on the first plurality of vehicle sensors; \n determining a predicted merging location based on the second plurality of vehicle sensors; \n monitoring the another area proximate to the vehicle with at least one sensor to detect the presence of any traffic; \n determining whether traffic will be in the merging lane when the vehicle reaches the merging location; and \n providing a merge recommendation based upon the predicted location of traffic when the vehicle reaches the merging location.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90164
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11299276', '15096400', '14045319', '15191358', '13325748']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6795895936705697
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4762612148718673
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6592567557906994
- Mean Citation Score: 190.47609000000003
- Max Citation Score: 196.04176
- Similarity Product: 162.00563513060567

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

Dataset: test