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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claim 44 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claim 44 recites the limitation "the flight data" in line 13. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 44 recites the limitation "the low power wide area network" in line 13. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-3, 5-6, 9-11, 13, 18, 21, 27, 32, 40-41, 49, 52-54 allowed.
The prior art fails to disclose
A method for assessing a bird, the method comprising: configuring an electronic device to be attached to the bird, the electronic device comprising a microcontroller and a communication module that cooperate together to: acquire, from a plurality of sensors, at least one of inertial data, environmental data and bird physiological data; and acquire bird geoposition data from at least one of a terrestrial system and an extraterrestrial system; upon allowing the bird to become airborne, operating the electronic device to convert the acquired at least one of inertial, environmental, bird physiological and bird geoposition data into flight data of the airborne bird; acquiring observational data about the bird; using the communication module to exchange the flight data and the observational data between the electronic device and an operations center over a communication network; and analyzing at least one performance metric of the bird based the exchanged flight data and observational data.
Nor does the prior art disclose A machine learning-based system for analyzing a flight path of a bird, the system comprising: a plurality of sensors comprising an inertial measurement unit, at least one physiological sensor and at least one environmental sensor; a communication module configured to operate using a plurality of modes of communication one of which comprises a low power wide area network; and at least one microcontroller signally cooperative with the plurality of sensors and the communication module to exchange information therebetween, the at least one microcontroller comprising at least one processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing machine-readable instructions that cause the at least one processor to: acquire first sensor data from the inertial measurement unit, second sensor data from the at least one physiological sensor and third sensor data from the at least one environmental sensor; acquire, using the communication module, location data from at least one of a terrestrial system and an extraterrestrial system; using a trained machine learning model that correlates the acquired sensor and location data to determine at least one performance metric of the bird, and transmit, using at least the low power wide area network portion of the communication module, the determined at least one performance metric to a user. These limitations in combination are neither taught nor obvious by the prior art of record.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Norris (U.S. Pub No. 20150230450) discloses an intrusion system can be configured to includes a detection module comprising a processing module and a sensor having an output coupled to the processing module, wherein the detection module is configured to detect an object in a predetermined area and to determine a position of the detected object in the predetermined area; an ultrasonic generator comprising an oscillator configured to generate an ultrasonic signal; and an ultrasonic emitter coupled to the ultrasonic generator configured to launch an ultrasonic wave toward the position of the detected object.
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/GERTRUDE ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3661