PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978383
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["607", "003000"]

Abstract:
Example devices and methods of tongue stimulation for communication of information to a user are disclosed herein. In an example, a tongue stimulation device may include a body configured to be placed entirely within a mouth of the user and atop the tongue of the user. An array of electro-tactile elements may be distributed on the body, wherein each of the electro-tactile elements is configured to stimulate an area of the tongue adjacent the electro-tactile element. A wireless receiver coupled to the body may be configured to receive stimulation information wirelessly from outside the mouth of the user. At least one processing unit coupled to the body may be configured to transform the received stimulation information into a stimulation signal for each of the electro-tactile elements, and to provide the stimulation signals to the electro-tactile elements.

Claim (Index 19):
A system for generating a series of predetermined stimulation signals configured to determine a discrimination ability between a plurality of areas of the tongue of the user through stimulation of the plurality of areas of the tongue, the system comprising:\n a body comprising an array of stimulators distributed on the body, the body configured to be placed entirely within a mouth of the user and atop the tongue of the user and each stimulator of the array of stimulators configured to stimulate an area of the tongue adjacent each stimulator; a transceiver coupled to the body; and a computing device communicatively coupled to the body, the computing device comprising a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:\n transmit the series of predetermined stimulation signals to the transceiver, the body comprising an array of stimulators distributed on the body; \n apply stimulations corresponding to the series of predetermine stimulation signals to the plurality of areas of the tongue through the array of stimulators distributed on the body; \n receive one or more inputs in response to the stimulations; and \n generate a stimulation location map for a tongue stimulation device based at least on the one or more inputs, the stimulation location map comprising a relative location of a plurality of stimulation elements of a tongue stimulation device corresponding to a determined two-point discrimination ability of the user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21538
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15583572', '14677687', '14615766', '15602060', '12041203']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6506781639024107
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5285732739079914
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6384676749029689
- Mean Citation Score: 241.148518
- Max Citation Score: 380.58795
- Similarity Product: 309.3500939226061

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

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