Appeal No. 96-0361
Application 08/288,154
supplied to the rule memory 700 in order to access the action
value signal ACTION which provides the offset to be added to
the existing output signal." Therefore, the rule base 700 is
a look-up table addressed by the identified MAX RULE. The
rule base 700 is a compilation of rules for sensed state
variables, and the rule memory stores a value ACTION
representative of an output. The rule base 700 in Basehore is
"a compilation of values derived from executing a fuzzy logic
rule base for the sensed state variables" in the same way as
appellants' rule base in figure 13. It is true that Basehore
continuously evaluates all of the fuzzy logic at each
iteration in order to determine the MAX RULE to address the
ACTION signal, however, this is not excluded by the language
of claims 1 and 32. Unfortunately, we do not have the benefit
of appellants' arguments about these teachings of Basehore.
Because the rejection is still based on anticipation over
Basehore, we sustain the rejection of claims 1 and 32.
However, because we rely on different teachings of Basehore,
we denominate this decision as containing a new ground of
rejection under 37 CFR § 1.196(b).
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