Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 11 and 13-20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Kim (US 2020/0255008). Kim teaches:
An object-based lane keeping assist for a vehicle (see paragraph 2), the vehicle (1) including a first sensor (120), a second sensor (120,130), and a lane keeping function (312, Figure 5), the first sensor being configured to determine a relative position of the vehicle with respect to a lane (par. 11, 17, 23, 114), the second sensor being configured to detect a position of an object (obj1, obj2) in an adjacent lane (par. 72, 73, 75, 78,79), the lane keeping function being configured to keep the vehicle around a default line in the lane (implicit in lane keeping system), comprising:
a control unit (100), including a processor (141) and a memory (142) with stored instructions, executable on the processor, to perform the following:
triggering a steering intervention (par. 88) when a distance between a side of the vehicle and a trigger line is below a predetermined threshold indicating an unintended lane departure of the vehicle (par. 24, 25, reference distance);
completing the steering intervention, when the default travel line of the lane
keeping function has been reached (implicit in lane keeping system); and
shifting the trigger line when the second sensor has detected the object in the
adjacent lane (see paragraphs 159 and 165).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 12 is objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
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/ERICK R SOLIS/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3747