PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16366441
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["074", "523000"]

Abstract:
A manual interface device is disclosed. The manual interface device can include a first interface component attachable to a manually controllable mechanism. The first interface component can have a first interface surface defining a protrusion or a recess. In addition, the manual interface device can include a second interface component attachable to a human operator. The second interface component can have a second interface surface defining the other of the protrusion or the recess to engage with the first interface surface sufficient to transfer force to operate the manually controllable mechanism. The first and second interface components can be magnetically attracted to one another to maintain engagement of the first and second interface surfaces during operation of the manually controllable mechanism while facilitating selective disengagement of the first and second interface surfaces by the operator.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for facilitating control of a manually controllable mechanism, comprising:\n providing a manual interface device having\n a first interface component attached to the manually controllable mechanism, the first interface component having a first interface surface, and \n a second interface component attachable to a human operator, the second interface component having a second interface surface operable to engage with the first interface surface sufficient to transfer force to operate the manually controllable mechanism; and \n facilitating engagement of the first and second interface surfaces during operation of the manually controllable mechanism and selective disengagement of the first and second interface surfaces by the operator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53571
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11203179', '15070795', '15572123', '13915403', '10637908']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7552319887206042
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4282841254538371
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7225372023939275
- Mean Citation Score: 74.6642668
- Max Citation Score: 78.4309
- Similarity Product: 54.10310460652113

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

Dataset: test