PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027841
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["345", "173000"]

Abstract:
Methods, device, and computer program product for mitigating pathogen transmission via a touch surface of a touch input device. Mitigation is accomplished through selective touch surface sterilization and through touchscreen user interface reorganization. The touch surface includes a pixel array for illuminating selected portions of the touch surface with ultraviolet light of a sterilization wavelength based upon the received touch inputs. The selective illumination may occur while receiving a touch input or after an accumulation of touch inputs have been received. The user interface may also be reorganized based on received touch inputs in order to locate user interface icons to lesser touched locations of the touch surface.

Claim (Index 16):
A computer program product comprising:\n a non-transitory storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising:\n determining, with the processing circuit, that a touch input has been received at a touch location on a touch surface; \n selecting, with the processing circuit and based upon the touch location, a portion of the touch surface for illumination with ultraviolet light of a sterilization wavelength from at least one pixel of an ultraviolet pixel array comprising a plurality of pixels that are individually selectable by the controller, the selected portion being selected to include the touch location; \n selecting to activate the at least one pixel which is less than the plurality of pixels, and to deactivate the remaining pixels in the plurality of pixels conserving power of a device, to thereby generate with the activated at least one pixel ultraviolet light of a sterilization wavelength to illuminate the selected portion of the touch surface; and \n illuminating, by the activated at least one pixel of the ultraviolet pixel array where each pixel of the array is configured to illuminate a portion of the touch surface, the selected portion of the touch surface with an ultraviolet light of a sterilization wavelength.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71642
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14204894', '15198174', '15854998', '15198218', '15198254']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.699872842261971
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6014378760114582
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6900293456369198
- Mean Citation Score: 469.84006200000016
- Max Citation Score: 508.1379
- Similarity Product: 497.5147835307598

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