PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986653
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
Assemblies include a chassis having a first side configured to receive a force-sensitive surface, a support structure including first electrode portions, and resilient mounting elements attached to the chassis and to the support structure. The mounting elements include second electrode portions positioned adjacent to the first electrode portions. Force-sensitive systems include force sensors including portions of a support structure and portions of a mounting element that are adapted to relatively move responsive to one or more applied forces, and a controller configured to identify the one or more applied forces by determining movement between the support structure and the mounting element. Methods include detecting changes in capacitances of respective capacitors formed by first electrode portions on a support structure and second electrode portions defined by mounting elements coupling a chassis to the support structure. Force values and force locations are determined from the detected changes in capacitances.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of estimating a force applied to a force-sensitive surface, the method comprising:\n detecting changes in capacitances of respective capacitors formed by first electrode portions on a support structure and second electrode portions defined by mounting elements, the mounting elements coupling a chassis receiving a force-sensitive surface to the support structure; using the detected changes in capacitances to determine a force value of a force applied to the force-sensitive surface; and comparing the changes in capacitances of the respective capacitors to estimate a location of the force applied to the force-sensitive surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24638
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10121507', '10121516', '12417908', '12554552', '12325431']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.626659764475369
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4607041215041483
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6100642001782469
- Mean Citation Score: 144.983216
- Max Citation Score: 152.12958
- Similarity Product: 118.59830191561458

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

Dataset: test