PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15911744
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["438", "028000"]

Abstract:
A micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) array system is configured to apply suction forces for the manipulation of objects. The MEMS system includes includes a two-dimensional MEMS array of a plurality of individual MEMS elements. Each MEMS element comprises: a casing structure; a flexible membrane attached to the casing structure; and an electrode structure, wherein a voltage applied to the electrode structure actuates the MEMS element to cause the flexible membrane to flex relative to the casing structure. The flexible membrane and the casing structure define a gap into which the flexible membrane may flex, and a foot extends from the flexible membrane in a direction away from the casing structure, wherein the foot and the flexible membrane define a clearance region on an opposite side of the flexible membrane from the gap. When the MEMS element interacts with an object to be manipulated the foot spaces the membrane apart from the object. The MEMS array system further includes a control circuit that selectively actuates one or more of the MEMS elements of the MEMS array.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of manipulating one or more objects of  claim 12 , wherein the one or more objects comprises one or more microscale objects, the method further comprising:\n using the suction forces of the selected MEMS elements such that each selected MEMS element lifts a respective microscale object from a first surface; moving a location of the MEMS array while the suction force retains the one or more microscale objects to the respective MEMS elements; and removing the suction force and releasing the one or more microscale objects from the respective MEMS elements, thereby placing the one or more microscale objects on a second surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12574504', '15839824', '15351235', '11462333', '15453230']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8480506979756377
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4886141150054766
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8121070396786216
- Mean Citation Score: 169.30021599999995
- Max Citation Score: 177.82333
- Similarity Product: 116.82970616169573

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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