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 15):
A method for creating a discrimination ability map of a body part of a user, the method comprising:\n generating a series of predetermined stimulation signals utilizing a computing device, the predetermined stimulation signals configured to determine a discrimination ability between a plurality of areas of the body part of the user through stimulation of the plurality of areas of the body part; transmitting the series of predetermined stimulation signals to a transceiver coupled to a stimulator body configured to be placed in contract with the body part, the stimulator body comprising an array of stimulators distributed on the stimulator body, wherein each stimulator of the array of stimulators is configured to stimulate an area of the body part adjacent each stimulator; applying stimulations corresponding to the series of predetermined stimulation signals to the plurality of areas of the body part through the array of stimulators distributed on the stimulator body; receiving one or more inputs in response to applying the stimulations; and generating a stimulation location map for a body part 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 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): 0.6520399937844272
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5277347612812406
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6396094705341087
- Mean Citation Score: 241.148518
- Max Citation Score: 380.58795
- Similarity Product: 261.85577015798987

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

Dataset: test