PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16102099
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise methods and apparatus for increased sensitivity of a capacitive proximity sensor. The method and apparatus may comprise additional external capacitors coupled in parallel with internal variable capacitors to increase the effective capacitance of a detection circuit allowing for a larger sensing element, and therefore a stronger sensing field, without increasing the applied voltage or the internal capacitance of the proximity sensor. In alternative embodiments, the methods and apparatus may be configured to operate as one of a transmission electrode and a reception electrode to increase the strength of the sensing field.

Claim (Index 18):
The capacitive sensor according to  claim 17 , further comprising a second multiplexer responsive to a second control signal from the control unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15283872', '15284021', '15283970', '15876417', '14038554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6357061162945846
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5496712399185705
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6271026286569832
- Mean Citation Score: 308.946392
- Max Citation Score: 400.28333
- Similarity Product: 338.06038927450885

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

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