PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16184664
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["324", "076390"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments mitigate the risk of frequency-lock in systems having multiple resonators by dynamically changing the frequency at which at least one of the resonators is driven. More particularly, the drive frequency of at least one of the resonators is changed often enough that the multiple resonators do not have time to achieve frequency lock. Changes in the oscillation of the resonators may be analyzed to determine, for example, acceleration of such systems. Some embodiments implement self-test by assessing expected performance of a system with toggling drive frequencies. More particularly, some embodiments implement self-test by artificially inducing displacement of a movable member of a system.

Claim (Index 21):
A multi-resonator resonant accelerometer, comprising:\n a shuttle mass; a first resonator coupled to the shuttle mass; a first sense electrode forming a first gap in-plane with the first resonator; a second resonator coupled to the shuttle mass; and a second sense electrode forming a second gap in-plane with the second resonator, wherein the first and second resonators are configured such that the first gap increases in-plane and the second gap decreases in-plane in response to a same in-plane acceleration of the shuttle mass.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75385
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14998168', '14887973', '13476989', '15166599', '15170577']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.545645496942363
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5176278947159678
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5428437367197234
- Mean Citation Score: 203.77466
- Max Citation Score: 325.7025
- Similarity Product: 238.84464191392064

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

Dataset: test