PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15746194
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["049", "028000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates generally to the field of motorized garage door openers. In particular, the invention relates to wireless safety sensors for garage door openers and garage door opener with a wireless safety sensor. The wireless safety sensor has a wireless communication link with a main control unit of the garage door opener. The wireless safety sensor also has an internal wireless link, i.e., a detection beam link, between a master unit and a slave unit. The wireless safety sensor periodically verifies that the wireless communication link has good signal quality and maintains the quality of the wireless communication link.

Claim (Index 22):
A garage door opener system for opening and closing a garage door, the garage door opener system comprising:\n a main control unit for controlling operation of an electric motor to open or close the garage door, the main control unit comprising:\n a main unit microprocessor; \n a motor control unit for controlling energizing of the electric motor; \n a main unit wireless circuitry in data communication with and controlled by the main unit microprocessor, the main unit wireless circuitry comprising a main unit transceiver; \n a master safety sensor unit, the master safety sensor unit comprising:\n a sensor wireless circuitry including a sensor transceiver, the sensor transceiver communicating with the main unit transceiver wirelessly over a wireless connection; \n a master safety beam transceiver; and \n a sensor microprocessor in data communication with both the sensor wireless circuitry and the master safety beam transceiver, the sensor microprocessor being configured to periodically activate the sensor transceiver to transmit a wireless initiation signal to the main unit transceiver to initiate verification of quality of communication between the main unit transceiver and the sensor transceiver and to restore the quality to better than pre-set criteria if the quality is below the pre-set criteria; and \n a slave safety sensor unit, the slave safety sensor unit comprising:\n a slave sensor microprocessor, and \n a slave safety beam transceiver in data communication with the slave sensor microprocessor; \n wherein, upon the master sensor transceiver receiving a door closing signal from the main unit transceiver, the master sensor microprocessor directs the master safety beam transceiver to emit a start signal to the slave safety beam transceiver to direct the slave safety beam transceiver to start transmitting a safety detection signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 92.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31915
- Patent Class: 49.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11690380', '11344949', '13871290', '11523863', '11751746']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7919781536608828
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4861905324709314
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7613993915418876
- Mean Citation Score: 239.664916
- Max Citation Score: 250.42162
- Similarity Product: 217.55067173580883

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

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