PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16117195
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["381", "326000"]

Abstract:
Presented herein are low-power active bone conduction devices that comprise an actuator that is subcutaneously implanted within a recipient so as to deliver mechanical output forces to hard tissue of the recipient. The low-power active bone conduction devices include an energy recovery circuit configured to extract non-used energy from the actuator and to store the non-used energy for subsequent use by the actuator. The low-power active bone conduction devices may also include a multi-bit sigma-delta converter that operates in accordance with a scaled sigma-delta quantization threshold value to convert received signals representative of sound into actuator drive signals.

Claim (Index 13):
A bone conduction device, comprising:\n a sigma-delta converter configured to receive audio signals and to convert those audio signals into sigma-delta signals, wherein the sigma-delta converter operates to scale the sigma-delta signals when the audio signals have an amplitude that is below a predetermined threshold level; an implantable actuator comprising a capacitive element; an audio driver configured to deliver the sigma-delta signals to the actuator in a manner that charges and discharges the capacitive element; and an energy recovery circuit configured to extract energy from the capacitive element while the capacitive element discharges and to add energy to the capacitive element while the capacitive element charges.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55385
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14317410', '15700373', '14822333', '13301946', '14886683']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6911929595059304
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6092130542190612
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6829949689772434
- Mean Citation Score: 363.29674
- Max Citation Score: 567.4697
- Similarity Product: 467.1745354879975

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