PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16036410
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["381", "092000"]

Abstract:
A directional microphone array which can be integrated into a case for a portable computing device. A microphone array board connects to a surface of a laptop computer, tablet computer or smart phone, which can be steered in the direction of a target source. An audio processing module (APM) is operably engaged with the array board to receive a first staged beamformed audio input from the array board, and process a second beamformed stage audio output.

Claim (Index 3):
The microphone array apparatus of  claim 1  further comprising a printed circuit board coupled to the interior surface of the housing, wherein the plurality of microphones is coupled to a surface of the printed circuit board.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15280343', '13654225', '14561433', '12837314', '13493950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6712867508023728
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4807558297769842
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.652233658699834
- Mean Citation Score: 156.48185
- Max Citation Score: 191.80258
- Similarity Product: 141.3147820555401

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

Dataset: test