PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15963022
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["360", "319000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a transducer structure. The transducer structure has a lower shield and an upper shield above the lower shield, the upper and lower shields providing magnetic shielding. A current-perpendicular-to-plane sensor is positioned between the upper and lower shields. An electrical lead layer is positioned between the sensor and one of the shields. The electrical lead layer is in electrical communication with the sensor. A resistance of the electrical lead layer along a direction orthogonal to a media facing surface is less than a resistance across the sensor along a direction parallel to the media facing surface. A spacer layer is positioned between the electrical lead layer and the one of the shields. One or both of the shields has at least one laminate pair comprising a magnetically permeable layer and a harder layer, where the harder layer has a mechanical hardness that is higher than a mechanical hardness of the magnetically permeable layer.

Claim (Index 4):
An apparatus as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the spacer layer includes at least one of: ruthenium, aluminum oxide, chrome oxide, silicon nitride, boron nitride, silicon carbide, silicon oxide, titanium oxide, and titanium nitride.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56061
- Patent Class: 360.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15466540', '15445861', '15886335', '15136759', '15238590']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7807927775917994
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5574842196336518
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7584619217959847
- Mean Citation Score: 370.150256
- Max Citation Score: 420.7035
- Similarity Product: 395.1833228375317

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

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