PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880371
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["429", "050000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for detecting and compensating for expansion of rechargeable batteries over time. An expansion detector may be coupled to or positioned proximate a rechargeable battery to monitor for expansion thereof. After expansion exceeding a selected threshold is detected, the expansion detector may report the expansion to an associated processing unit. The processing unit may undertake to arrest further rechargeable battery expansion by modifying or changing one or more characteristics of charging and/or discharging circuitry coupled to the rechargeable battery. For example, the processing unit may charge the rechargeable battery at a lower rate or with reduced voltage after detecting expansion.

Claim (Index 49):
A rechargeable battery package of an electronic device comprising:\n a rechargeable battery; an expansion detector operably coupled to the rechargeable battery and configured to determine a dimension of the rechargeable battery; and a power management unit operably coupled to the rechargeable battery and the expansion detector, the power management unit configured to control an electrical input provided to the rechargeable battery; wherein\n the expansion detector is further configured to send an expansion signal to the power management unit in response to the expansion detector determining that the dimension of the rechargeable battery exceeds an expansion threshold; and \n the power management unit is further configured to modify the electrical input in response to receiving the expansion signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73016
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14838395', '15858257', '15343504', '15555858', '15702670']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8611442915703452
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5449543008525404
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8295252924985648
- Mean Citation Score: 218.45942
- Max Citation Score: 410.66226
- Similarity Product: 366.30433087551

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

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