PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15943221
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["073", "779000"]

Abstract:
A controller for sensing deformation including a sensor structure having a deformable conductor and another conductor (which may also be deformable). The deformable conductor may be made out of a flexible non-fluid material (e.g., rubber) or a conductive fluid. The deformable conductor may be deformed by the deformation of the sensor structure or by other forces. The sensor comprises circuitry to drive and sense signals on interacting pairs of conductors (the deformable conductor or the other conductor can act as the drive side, or as the sense side). Sense signals are processed to analyze deformation of the deformable conductor, and deformation of the sensor structure. Where the sensor is deployed proximate to human skin, deformation and changes in deformation may be used to correlate or infer a body position, movement or pose.

Claim (Index 10):
A method comprising the steps of:\n generating a plurality of frequency-orthogonal signals on each of a plurality of first conductors, respectively, wherein at least one of the plurality of first conductors is adapted to be mechanically deformed; receiving signals on a plurality of second conductors, the plurality of second conductors being oriented such that each of the plurality of first conductors forms an interacting pair of conductors with at least one of the plurality of second conductors; processing the received signals received during an integration period to determine a measurement corresponding to each of the plurality of frequency-orthogonal signals for each of the received signals; and determining a mechanical deformation for at least one of the plurality of first conductors based at least in part on the measurements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06944
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14163016', '15904953', '10757489', '12153343', '13303130']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7530439754212778
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.441840291692399
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7219236070483899
- Mean Citation Score: 106.3792532
- Max Citation Score: 112.29072
- Similarity Product: 87.60410676898954

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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