PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15999292
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["073", "862000"]

Abstract:
A support evaluation device ( 10 ) comprising a series of pressure sensors in a stack ( 16 ), output means ( 34 a,  34 b,  34 c ) linked to the pressure sensors for indicating signals therefrom, and a power source, the series of pressure sensors including at least first and second pressure sensors within the stack ( 16 ), operational across respective first and second pressure bands, each pressure sensor including first and second electrical conductors ( 18, 20, 24, 28 ), and an insulator ( 22, 26, 30 ) separating the electrical conductors ( 18, 20, 24, 28 ), the pressure sensors being adapted to signal whether there is contact between their electrical conductors ( 18, 20, 24, 28 ), and the output means ( 34 a,  34 b,  34 c ) being adapted to provide at least one of an audio or visual output corresponding to signals from the pressure sensors, in use indicating the pressure band reached for a patient sat on the device ( 10 ), each pressure band corresponding to a predetermined cushion strength for prescribing a cushion to that patient.

Claim (Index 17):
A support evaluation device comprising at least one pressure sensor, output means linked to the pressure sensor for indicating signals therefrom, and a power source,\n the or each pressure sensor including first and second electrical conductors, and an insulator spacing the electrical conductors, the or each pressure sensor has a capacitance in an uncompressed state and a different capacitance in a compressed state, and the controller is adapted to measure pressure sensor capacitance, triggering an output from the output means if the measured capacitance of the or each pressure sensor when compressed remains substantially unchanged for a predetermined period of time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54762
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11412859', '12075937', '12123239', '16072475', '15306063']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6797576767362039
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4574651085202339
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.657528419914607
- Mean Citation Score: 131.483224
- Max Citation Score: 135.89264
- Similarity Product: 103.43824719926836

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

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