PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895709
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["434", "188000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is a teaching and learning tool built on the principle that the human sense of touch makes a significant contribution in the visualization of objects. Sighted individuals can produce visual images inside the brain (commonly referred to as the “mind's eye”) via the sense of touch, where we use our minds, rather than our eyes, to visualize concrete objects allowing us to “get a picture” of that object. A “brain-sight” apparatus is disclosed that provides a box for containing object manipulatives and/or math manipulatives, two openings for receiving hands of a user, which openings are covered by a veil such that the user cannot see into the box. A user who places his hands into the box and manipulates the object manipulatives and/or math manipulatives in response to a posed problem, and then solves the posed problem in a traditional manner, benefits from cognitive enhancement provided by multi-modal stimulation of the somatosensory cortex and lateral occipital cortex.

Claim (Index 3):
An apparatus for teaching mathematics to a student utilizing a tactile modality, said apparatus comprising:\n a box configured with two openings; a plurality of object manipulatives; means for selecting said plurality of object manipulatives; means for presenting said student with said plurality of object manipulatives; means for placing said plurality of object manipulatives inside said box configured with two openings; means for presenting said student with an arithmetic problem and directing said student to place each of said student's hands into said box configured with two openings by placing each hand into each of said openings of said box configured with two openings; means for instructing said student to verbalize a concept of said arithmetic problem while manually manipulating said plurality of object manipulatives; means for removing said student's hands from said box; means for posing said arithmetic problem to said student; and means for instructing student to write a solution to said arithmetic problem.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67593
- Patent Class: 434.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12406605', '13326675', '11780348', '11065299', '10141069']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2791713382117892
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4671455411850336
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2979687585091136
- Mean Citation Score: 138.44311000000002
- Max Citation Score: 148.67259
- Similarity Product: 102.1285042147708

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test