PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16276562
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["040", "124030"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to animatronics on entertainment devices such as greeting cards. A shape memory-alloy wire may be coupled to a PCB housed within a greeting card body. The wire may be anchored to a linkage assembly that is swivably, rotably, pivotably, extendably or otherwise movably coupled to the greeting card body. The PCB may be configured to generate a signal to a driving circuit for supplying an electrical current through the wire, the current having a variable amperage that is modified based on the pulse file. The variable amperage causes a change in the temperature of the wire, which causes the wire, and thus the linkage assembly, to contract and expand. The linkage assembly may be coupled to a display body, which may include an animal shape, characters, popular culture images and the like. Movement of the linkage assembly causes the display body to move in an entertaining manner.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for implementing synchronized animatronics on a greeting card, comprising:\n receiving a media file; generating a signal to a driving circuit for supplying an electrical current through the memory-alloy wire with a variable amperage that is modified based on the pulse file; programming a microcontroller to generate an electrical current based on the pulse file; coupling a memory-alloy wire to a printed circuit board (PCB) secured to a greeting card body; coupling the memory-alloy wire to a linkage assembly movably coupled to the greeting card body; and connecting a switch to the PCB, the switch for closing a circuit between the microcontroller and a battery, wherein the microcontroller is configured to:\n generate an electrical current based on the pulse file; and \n move the linkage assembly by heating the memory-alloy wire from a first temperature to a second temperature causing the memory-alloy wire to contract and expand responsive to the electrical current.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0875
- Patent Class: 40.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10458824', '14149085', '13004544', '13095071', '15796802']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6831000483679204
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4931445272887362
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6641044962600019
- Mean Citation Score: 147.48133
- Max Citation Score: 157.6783
- Similarity Product: 102.18794453470709

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

Dataset: test