PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16360913
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["324", "672000"]

Abstract:
Obscured feature detectors are disclosed. An obscured feature detector includes a sensor plate array including three or more sensor plates, each of the three or more sensor plates configured to form a first end of a corresponding electric field and to take a sensor reading of the corresponding electric field. The corresponding electric field varies based on a proximity of the sensor plate to one or more surrounding objects and on a material property of each of the one or more surrounding objects. The three or more sensor plates include a first sensor plate that has a first shape and a second sensor plate that has a second shape that is different from the first shape of the first sensor plate. The obscured feature detector also includes one or more common plates to form a second end of the corresponding electric field of the three or more sensor plates.

Claim (Index 12):
An obscured feature detector comprising:\n a sensor plate array including three or more sensor plates arranged in a geometric pattern having one or more ends, each of the three or more sensor plates configured to form a first end of a corresponding electric field and to take a sensor reading of the corresponding electric field, wherein the corresponding electric field varies based on a proximity of the sensor plate to one or more surrounding objects and on a material property of each of the one or more surrounding objects, the three or more sensor plates including:\n one or more middle plates, and \n end plates at each end of the geometric pattern, at least one of the end plates having an end shape that is different from a middle shape of the one or more middle plates; \n one or more common plates to form a second end of the corresponding electric field of one or more sensor plates of the three or more sensor plates; a sensing circuit coupled to the three or more sensor plates, the sensing circuit configured to measure the sensor readings on the three or more sensor plates; and an indicator to be toggled between a deactivated state and an activated state to indicate a location of a region of relative high sensor reading.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.87037
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15499701', '15136570', '12860448', '13040203', '13040206']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6032120843588585
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5250653691261198
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5953974128355847
- Mean Citation Score: 291.55241400000006
- Max Citation Score: 369.67538
- Similarity Product: 344.92589118884325

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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