PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989063
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
Acoustic touch and/or force sensing system architectures and methods for acoustic touch and/or force sensing can be used to detect a position of an object touching a surface and an amount of force applied to the surface by the object. The position and/or an applied force can be determined using time-of-flight (TOF) techniques, for example. Acoustic touch sensing can utilize transducers (e.g., piezoelectric) to simultaneously transmit ultrasonic waves along a surface and through a thickness of a deformable material. The location of the object and the applied force can be determined based on the amount of time elapsing between the transmission of the waves and receipt of the reflected waves. In some examples, an acoustic touch sensing system can be insensitive to water contact on the device surface, and thus acoustic touch sensing can be used for touch sensing in devices that may become wet or fully submerged in water.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 11 , further comprising:\n determining a time-of-flight in the surface based on a time difference between transmitting an ultrasonic wave in the surface and receiving an ultrasonic reflection from the surface corresponding to the object in contact with the surface, wherein determining the position of the object comprises determining a distance from an edge of the surface to a leading edge of the object proximate to the edge of the surface based on the time-of-flight in the surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11688
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14514308', '14055797', '13012513', '15274295', '12184232']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6080341313671297
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5095170471227876
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5981824229426954
- Mean Citation Score: 220.997258
- Max Citation Score: 227.18779
- Similarity Product: 140.97887265179398

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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