PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941886
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "095000"]

Abstract:
An automated drywalling system for applying joint compound or plaster to drywall pieces. The system includes a robotic arm and a mudding end effector coupled at a distal end of the robotic arm, the mudding end effector configured to apply joint compound or plaster to a target surface. The system can further include a computing device executing a computational planner that: generates instructions for driving the mudding end effector and robotic arm to perform at least one mudding task that includes applying joint compound or plaster, via the mudding the end effector, to one or more joints between a plurality of drywall pieces, the generating based at least in part on obtained target surface data; and drives the end effector and robotic arm to perform the at least one mudding task.

Claim (Index 1):
An automated drywalling system for applying joint compound to drywall of a wall assembly, the automated drywalling system comprising:\n a base unit that includes:\n a mud source configured to store joint compound or plaster; \n a platform, \n a cart configured to be disposed on and move on the ground, and \n a lift disposed between the platform and cart, the lift configured to raise the platform up and down; \n an elongated robotic arm that extends between a base end and a distal end, the robotic arm coupled to the base unit on the platform at the base end of the robotic arm; a mudding end effector coupled at the distal end of the robotic arm, the mudding end effector including a spray gun configured to generate a spray of joint compound or plaster from a nozzle of the spray gun, the spray gun coupled with a mud tube extending from the mud source via the robotic arm, the spray gun configured to receive joint compound or plaster from the mud source via the mud tube to generate the spray of joint compound or plaster; one or more vision systems; one or more sensors; a computing device executing a computational planner that:\n obtains target surface data from the one or more vision systems and the one or more sensors, the target surface data including information regarding a configuration of a wall assembly including a plurality of drywall pieces disposed on the wall assembly forming one or more joints between respective drywall pieces; \n automatically generates, instructions for driving the mudding end effector, robotic arm, and base unit to perform at least one mudding task that includes applying a joint compound spray generated by the spray gun of the mudding end effector to at least the one or more joints between the respective drywall pieces, the generating based at least in part on the target surface data; and \n automatically drives, the mudding end effector, robotic arm, and base unit to perform the at least one mudding task.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1875
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15942286', '15942158', '15942193', '10800554', '14885408']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.390553686229979
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5485832772848958
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4063566453354706
- Mean Citation Score: 267.686958
- Max Citation Score: 419.03683
- Similarity Product: 379.46542146876993

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

Dataset: test