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 1):
An apparatus for teaching a student utilizing a tactile modality wherein a lateral occipital cortex of the student is activated via a somatosensory cortex, the apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of object manipulatives; a box comprising a front face, a right face, a left face, a top face hingedly attached to said box whereby said top face can be raised to allow insertion of said plurality of object manipulatives into said box, a rear face hingedly connected to said box whereby said rear face can be opened to allow the interior of said box to be viewed from the rear by a teacher from behind, and a bottom face, wherein said box is configured with two openings approximately four inches in diameter placed on said front face and a veil affixed to said box and covering said two openings, whereby the interior of said box cannot be viewed by said student through said openings and whereby the student may access the interior of said box by placing his/her hands through said two openings; wherein manipulation of said plurality of object manipulatives by said student in response to a posed arithmetic problem followed by the issuance of a written solution to said arithmetic problem by said student causes said lateral occipital cortex to be activated via said somatosensory cortex of said student.

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): 0.2775305915814481
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4747421075383348
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2972517431771367
- Mean Citation Score: 138.44311000000002
- Max Citation Score: 148.67259
- Similarity Product: 95.59433186088324

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

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