PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16054978
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods enable a failsafe for a trailer brake controller (TBC), by using a camera to detect braking of the towing vehicle. The methods can include using a vehicle-facing camera mounted to a trailer to detecting light emitted from rear brake lights at the towing vehicle. Then, the methods can determine whether the brakes of the towing vehicle are being engaged, based on the light detected by the vehicle-facing camera. Also, a TBC failure can be determined, and as a result, a trailer brake activation signal can be communicated at the trailer side, as a failsafe to activate the brakes of the trailer.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein providing the trailer brake activation signal comprises generating an electrical current from a power supply at the trailer that is supplied to the brakes of the trailer, thereby engaging the brakes for deceleration and/or stopping of the trailer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01724
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14089381', '13964661', '12594462', '13933513', '15143290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6211230172929353
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4869359560633393
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6077043111699757
- Mean Citation Score: 253.283978
- Max Citation Score: 267.3661
- Similarity Product: 224.5676444700599

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