PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16173668
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["235", "380000"]

Abstract:
Devices and methods for detecting credit card skimmers are provided herein. A device can include a printed circuit board having a pattern of electrical traces on its surface, and a computer readable medium comprising instructions that cause a processor to direct an electrical voltage to a trace and detect an electrical current between two points of the trace. A gap can be disposed between the two points across which a voltage is applied in order to detect a magnetic reader. A count of the detected magnetic readers within a credit card reading device may be indicative of the presence of a credit card skimmer.

Claim (Index 18):
An apparatus comprising:\n a substrate sized to be received within a credit card reader; a circuit disposed on the substrate, wherein the circuit comprises at least one electrical trace comprising two points on the trace defining a gap there between; a processor configured to direct an electrical voltage to the at least one electrical trace and to detect an electrical current between the two points of the trace, wherein the electrical current identifies a magnetic read head; and a communication interface configured to provide an indication of the presence of a credit card skimming device within the credit card reader in response to identifying more than one magnetic read head within the credit card reader.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60294
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12339042', '13186640', '15419344', '12339102', '13008302']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5119146396303476
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4566632067012285
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5063894963374357
- Mean Citation Score: 148.84466200000003
- Max Citation Score: 157.4814
- Similarity Product: 122.97232568314077

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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