PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15562503
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["345", "173000"]

Abstract:
A touchpad ( 34 ) includes a plurality of first electrical conductors ( 24 ) and a plurality of second electrical conductors ( 28 ) that are disposed, in a plan view of the conductors ( 24, 28 ), in a crossing manner with the first conductors ( 24 ). A contact layer is disposed over the conductors ( 24, 28 ). When an object contacts the contact layer, a signal can be picked up from the conductors ( 24, 28 ), and the location of the contact on the contact layer can be determined from the signal. The contact layer includes a decorative layer ( 30 ) that forms a visually and/or haptically detectable decoration or on which a visually and/or haptically detectable decoration is applied. The decoration or the decorative layer and/or the electrical conductors ( 24, 28 ) is/are formed using an electronically-controllable droplet printing method.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of manufacturing the system according to  claim 6 , comprising:\n forming the plurality of first electrical conductors, forming the plurality of second electrical conductors such that the second electrical conductors are disposed, in a plan view of the conductors, in a crossing manner with the first electrical conductors, and disposing a contact layer over the first and second electrical conductors, the contact layer having a decorative layer and defining a visually and/or haptically detectable decoration or having a visual and/or haptically detectable decoration applied thereto, wherein at least one of (i) the plurality of first electrical conductors and second electrical conductors and (ii) the decorative layer is formed by the electronically-controllable droplet printing method.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 52.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53125
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12195687', '11489922', '13690524', '11812668', '10500440']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6078964830106031
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4618499164086135
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5932918263504041
- Mean Citation Score: 110.0865452
- Max Citation Score: 112.889015
- Similarity Product: 80.2172808850205

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

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