PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15987332
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["345", "173000"]

Abstract:
A touch interface device includes a touch surface configured to be engaged by an object, first and second actuator assemblies operably connected to the touch surface, and a controller operably connected with the first and second actuator assemblies. The first actuator assembly displaces the touch surface in one or more lateral directions along the touch surface at a first frequency. The second actuator assembly displaces the touch surface in an angled direction that is one of at least obliquely or perpendicularly angled to the touch surface at a second frequency. The controller operates the first and second actuator assemblies so that the touch surface varies in engagement with the object to impart a force on the object that is along the touch surface.

Claim (Index 2):
A touch interface device comprising:\n a touch surface configured to be engaged by a body part by applying a perceived continuous pushing force; a first actuator assembly operably connected to the touch surface, wherein the first actuator assembly oscillates the touch surface in one or more lateral directions along the touch surface at a first frequency; a second actuator assembly operably connected to the touch surface, wherein the second actuator assembly oscillates the touch surface in the angled direction at a second frequency such that a degree of engagement of the touch surface with the body part varies periodically; and a controller operably connected with the first and second actuator assemblies, wherein the controller synchronizes oscillatory movement of the first and second actuator assemblies so that the touch surface moves in the one or more lateral directions and in the one or more angled directions that are obliquely or perpendicularly to the touch surface and modulates at least one of amplitude, phase and frequency of the lateral and angular direction movements; and wherein the modulating is perceptible to detection by the body part and wherein said modulating varies in engagement with the body party and imparts a perceived continuous pushing force on the body part in one of the lateral directions along the touch surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43396
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13528024', '13468695', '10919798', '14734868', '15789495']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6348388331805291
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.517327288437448
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6230876787062211
- Mean Citation Score: 214.454226
- Max Citation Score: 329.9946
- Similarity Product: 292.097970676589

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

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