PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16169782
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["428", "041700"]

Abstract:
A shield that is attachable to a touch sensitive screen is disclosed. The shield may be attached to the touch sensitive screen only at its outer peripheral portion. An air gap is enclosed between the shield and the touch sensitive screen to form a planar air bearing. The shield preferably does not touch the active area of the touch sensitive screen when the user is not touching the shield but only viewing the touch sensitive screen through the shield. This mitigates unwanted optical artifacts such as trapped air bubbles, Newton rings and chromatic interference while maintaining the sensitivity of the touch sensitive screen.

Claim (Index 1):
A protective shield for a touch sensitive screen of a device, the device having a touch sensitive screen that enables touch operation of the electronic device, and the touch sensitive screen having an active area that comprises a touch sensitive visual display and an inactive area, the shield comprising:\n a base layer defining opposed first and second sides, the base layer having a shape that corresponds to a shape of the touch sensitive screen, the base layer defining a central portion that has a shape corresponding to the active area of the touch sensitive screen and an outer peripheral portion that corresponds to a shape of the inactive area of the touch sensitive screen; an annular layer disposed about the outer peripheral portion of the second side of the base layer, the annular layer having a shape that corresponds to the inactive area of the touch sensitive screen and defining opposed first and second sides the annular layer surrounding the central portion of the base layer; and a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive disposed on the second side of the annular layer; wherein the shape of the base layer and the disposed layer of pressure sensitive adhesive are configured to attach the shield to the touch sensitive screen of the device so that the central portion of the second side of the base layer is positioned over the active area of the touch sensitive screen of the device, and so that the attached shield forms an air gap between the central portion of the base layer and the touch sensitive screen of the device, wherein the shield is configured so that the touch sensitive screen maintains touch sensitivity through the attached shield, wherein the annular layer comprises an opaque pattern to hide air bubbles formed between the attached shield and the device, and wherein the annular layer is patterned.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78689
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13186690', '14599176', '13838311', '14642406', '12780443']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9164568367801692
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5285965884346091
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8776708119456132
- Mean Citation Score: 357.436618
- Max Citation Score: 369.8105
- Similarity Product: 360.0001667484641

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