PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923967
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["345", "177000"]

Abstract:
An input device outfitted with one or more ultrasonic transducers can determine the location of one or more objects in contact with the input device. For example, the input device can include one or more transducers disposed in a ring around the circumference of the input device or in an array of rings along the length of the input device. The ultrasonic transducers can be used to detect the position of the one or more touching objects in at least one dimension, for example. In some examples, the one or more ultrasonic transducers can produce directional ultrasonic waves.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein:\n the shaft extends along an axis, the shaft includes a plurality of cross-sectional areas orthogonal to the axis, an ultrasonic transducer of the one or more ultrasonic transducers is disposed at a distal end opposite the tip of the stylus around the circumference of one of the plurality of cross-sectional areas, and the method further comprises:\n at a first time, generate one of the one or more transmitted ultrasonic waves with the ultrasonic transducer of the one or more ultrasonic transducers, the transmitted ultrasonic wave propagating along the axis; \n at a second time after the first time, sense one of the one or more sensed ultrasonic waves with the ultrasonic transducer of the one or more ultrasonic transducers; and \n determining, with the touch controller, the position of the object based on the second time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12184232', '14514308', '13300081', '12508974', '15136283']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6217736830960262
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4831925250339292
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6079155672898164
- Mean Citation Score: 174.96104799999995
- Max Citation Score: 183.11867
- Similarity Product: 138.64471993091524

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

Dataset: test