PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939994
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["381", "055000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a protection system for protecting a MEMS transducer of a MEMS device from electrostatic capture, wherein the MEMS transducer is operable in a normal-sensitivity, mode and in a reduced-sensitivity mode. The protection system comprises: an overload detector for detecting an overload condition arising as a result of an excessive sound pressure level at the MEMS transducer; a signal estimator configured to generate an estimate of a sound pressure level at the MEMS transducer; and a controller configured, in response to detection by the overload detector of an overload condition, to: disable an output of the MEMS transducer; and after a delay of a first predetermined period of time: cause the MEMS transducer to operate in the reduced-sensitivity mode; enable the output of the MEMS transducer; and cause the MEMS transducer to return to the normal-sensitivity mode if the estimate of the sound pressure level generated by the signal estimator while the MEMS transducer is operating in the reduced-sensitivity mode is below a safe sound pressure level threshold for a second predetermined period of time.

Claim (Index 10):
A protection system according to  claim 2  wherein the first bias voltage is of the order of 1 volt or wherein the second bias voltage is of the order of 12 volts.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64384
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15904737', '14060403', '14156723', '12301163', '15939836']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7226544826965983
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4934820824897398
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6997372426759124
- Mean Citation Score: 214.140184
- Max Citation Score: 222.23752
- Similarity Product: 159.2481744946623

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