PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15987332
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["345", "173000"]

Abstract:
A touch interface device includes a touch surface configured to be engaged by an object, first and second actuator assemblies operably connected to the touch surface, and a controller operably connected with the first and second actuator assemblies. The first actuator assembly displaces the touch surface in one or more lateral directions along the touch surface at a first frequency. The second actuator assembly displaces the touch surface in an angled direction that is one of at least obliquely or perpendicularly angled to the touch surface at a second frequency. The controller operates the first and second actuator assemblies so that the touch surface varies in engagement with the object to impart a force on the object that is along the touch surface.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for applying a perceived continuous pushing force from a touch surface to a body part, the method comprising:\n operating a controller for a first and second plurality of actuators configured to move the touch surface to impart the perceived continuous pushing force on the body part, wherein the first plurality of actuators moves the touch surface in one or more lateral directions; wherein the second plurality of actuators moves the touch surface at an angled direction that is obliquely or perpendicularly angled to the touch surface; periodically moving the touch surface in the one or more lateral directions; periodically moving the touch surface in the angled direction such that a degree of engagement of the touch surface with the body part varies periodically; controlling and synchronizing movement of the touch surface in the one or more lateral directions and movement of the touch surface in the angled direction by modulating at least one of amplitude, phase and frequency of the lateral and anguled direction movements, wherein the modulating is-perceptible to detection from the body part and produces the perceived continuous pushing force on the body part, and wherein the perceived continuous pushing force is oriented in one of the lateral directions along the touch surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43396
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13528024', '13468695', '10919798', '14734868', '15789495']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6348956136540059
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.514645043649984
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6228705566536037
- Mean Citation Score: 214.454226
- Max Citation Score: 329.9946
- Similarity Product: 319.3060360836983

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