PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15963397
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["342", "134000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for ranging finding of signal transmitting devices is provided. The method of signal reception is digitally based only and does not require receivers that are analog measurement devices. Ranging can be achieved using a single pulse emitting device operating in range spaced relation with a minimum of a single signal transmitter and a single digital receiver and processing circuitry. In general a plurality of transmitting pulsed emitters may be ranged and positioned virtually simultaneously in 3-dimensions (XYZ coordinates) using a configuration of a plurality of digital receivers arranged in any fixed 3-dimensional configuration. Applications may involve at least one single transmitter to receiver design to determine range, or at least one transmitted reflecting signal off from an object to determine range.

Claim (Index 21):
A signal processor configured to operatively couple to one or more receivers for processing a transmitted signal received thereby to identify a distance travelled by the transmitted signal, the transmitted signal comprising at least one train of pulses, each train of pulses including a series of preamble pulses having a substantially constant pulse strength, and a series of body pulses, each body pulse having a pulse strength which varies across the series of body pulses according to a designated pulse strength profile, the signal processor being operable to output a range value according to a number of received body pulses in at least a subset of the series of the body pulses, whose pulse strength exceeds a designated pulse strength threshold value, wherein the signal processor is operable to become, or to control the receiver to become:\n a. active when the designated pulse strength threshold value is exceeded by the pulse strength of a received body pulse in the subset; and b. inactive when the designated pulse strength threshold value is not exceeded by the pulse strength a received body pulse in the subset.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56471
- Patent Class: 342.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13189878', '15517443', '09915620', '09826394', '09542708']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4662517403635317
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5144899730290613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4710755636300847
- Mean Citation Score: 175.9986952
- Max Citation Score: 321.37656
- Similarity Product: 290.5657619845104

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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