PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15763360
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["014", "071100"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides an improved method and apparatus for automatically aligning and connecting a passenger boarding bridge (PBB) with the passenger door of an aircraft or other vessel. A sensory suite module includes cameras and sensors to scan the apron for obstacles and identify an aircraft based on external features. The sensory suite module also includes one or more high-precision active laser line profilers to detect the vertical and lower edges of an aircraft door. A controller module provides precise control and movement of the distal end of the PBB and guides the distal end of the PBB to the passenger door. The system can be activated by a remote triggering panel module.

Claim (Index 21):
The system of  claim 20  wherein the sensory suite module includes one or more three-dimensional scanners to identify the aircraft by detecting its external features.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68056
- Patent Class: 14.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10505092', '14379099', '10394242', '14428824', '11519968']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6260285937871934
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5567871864142491
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.619104453049899
- Mean Citation Score: 208.581796
- Max Citation Score: 220.88838
- Similarity Product: 154.30788123256804

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

Dataset: test