PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16034856
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["701", "002000"]

Abstract:
One example embodiment includes a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The VTOL UAV includes a flight control system configured to provide avionic control of the VTOL UAV in a hover mode and in a level-flight mode. The VTOL UAV also includes a body encapsulating an engine and the flight control system. The VTOL UAV further includes a propeller disk coupled to the engine and configured to provide vertical thrust in the hover mode and to provide horizontal thrust for flight during the level-flight mode.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for controlling a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the method comprising:\n activating an engine to rotate a propeller disk to provide vertical thrust in a hover mode of the VTOL UAV corresponding to a substantially vertical orientation of the VTOL UAV, the propeller disk comprising a pair of contra rotating propellers axially fixed to a fore section of and along a central axis of a body of the VTOL UAV, the body being arranged as a flying-wing; extending a plurality of wings from the body at a first predetermined altitude in the hover mode; changing an orientation of the VTOL UAV from the substantially vertical orientation to a substantially horizontal orientation at a second predetermined altitude that is greater than the first predetermined altitude via at least one of engine speed and control flaps that are coupled to the body and respectively offset equally and oppositely with respect to a central axis of the body substantially entirely within a propeller wash of the propeller disk that is defined by a diameter of the propeller disk; and controlling the engine to rotate the propeller disk to provide horizontal thrust in a level-flight mode of the VTOL UAV corresponding to the substantially horizontal orientation of the VTOL UAV.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18182
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14695693', '15256140', '15827776', '15786793', '12949410']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5140947789167132
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6230859920794878
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5249939002329906
- Mean Citation Score: 442.48869400000007
- Max Citation Score: 607.39655
- Similarity Product: 545.2046794850886

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

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