PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914317
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "013000"]

Abstract:
A tactile sensor, computer readable medium, methods of using and manufacturing the tactile sensor, and methods and apparatuses for processing the information generated by the tactile sensor. The tactile sensor includes a planar optical waveguide comprised of a flexible and transparent layer, a light configured to direct light into the optical waveguide; a light sensor or an imager facing the optical waveguide and configured to generate signals from light scattered out of the optical waveguide; and a controller which may be configured to generate an image of the object and characteristics of the object. The waveguide may be configured so that some of the light directed into the optical waveguide is scattered out of the waveguide if the waveguide is deformed by being pressed against the object. A finite element and a neural network are used to estimate mechanical characteristics of the objects.

Claim (Index 9):
The tactile sensor of  claim 1  wherein the second portion has a different refractive index than a refractive index of the first portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15493
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13702042', '15261032', '12185782', '13430484', '10571576']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7931840285142071
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5489365632945848
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.768759281992245
- Mean Citation Score: 219.722684
- Max Citation Score: 398.8402
- Similarity Product: 280.3271342106223

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

Dataset: test