PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16025354
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
A device includes a controller coupled to a touch sensor. The touch sensor includes a first array of capacitive nodes substantially aligned with a second array of capacitive nodes in a mechanical stack. The controller is configured, when in a self-capacitive mode of operation, to send a first drive signal to a plurality of the electrodes of the first array, send a shield signal to at least a portion of the electrodes of the second array at the same time as the first drive signal is sent to the plurality of electrodes of the first array, and sense touch inputs based on signals received from the plurality of electrodes of the first array while the first drive signal is being sent to the plurality of electrodes of the first array and the shield signal is being sent to the at least a portion of the electrodes of the second array.

Claim (Index 37):
A method, comprising:\n sending, in a self-capacitive mode of operation, a first drive signal to a plurality of the electrodes of a first array of capacitive nodes, the capacitive nodes of the first array being substantially aligned with capacitive nodes of a second array of capacitive nodes in a mechanical stack; sending, in the self-capacitive mode of operation, a shield signal to at least a portion of electrodes of the second array of capacitive nodes at the same time as the first drive signal is sent to the plurality of electrodes of the first array; and sensing, in the self-capacitive mode of operation, touch inputs based on signals received from the plurality of electrodes of the first array while the first drive signal is being sent to the plurality of electrodes of the first array and the shield signal is being sent to the at least a portion of the electrodes of the second array; wherein the alignment of the capacitive nodes of the first array and the capacitive nodes of the second array form a plurality of crossover regions, each crossover region comprising a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion of the first array, each respective portion of the first array in the crossover region electrically uncoupled from the other respective portions of the first array in the crossover region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90741
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14990974', '14491807', '12390637', '14102222', '15886862']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5761796973318613
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4816235487664911
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5667240824753242
- Mean Citation Score: 157.38393000000005
- Max Citation Score: 240.47295
- Similarity Product: 224.5889536614776

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

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