Sentence examples for mental steps from inspiring English sources

The term "pituitary case," Key argued, had "too much math in it," which meant, Martel explained, that too many mental steps were required to get to the laugh.

The court said that Myriad's patent claims on the process of analyzing whether a patient's genes had mutations that raised the risk of cancer was not patentable because it involved only "patent-ineligible abstract mental steps".

Lisa A. Haile, a patent lawyer at DLA Piper in San Diego who is not involved in the Myriad case, said the appeals court on Friday suggested Myriad's claims would have been upheld if there was another step, such as sequencing the genes, in addition to just mental steps.

What mental steps do people go through when making such choices?

Known as Intelligent Tutor Systems, computer software is able track the "mental steps" of the learner during problem-solving tasks to diagnose misconceptions and estimate the learner's understanding of the domain.

But CAFC finds invalid the company's claims on testing for cancer risk by comparing or analyzing DNA sequences because these methods are based on "abstract, mental steps" of logic that are not "transformative".

Around 40,000 years ago, so the argument ran, humanity underwent a mental step-change.

It was a short mental step from this sinister view to seeing the wallet that Mr. Diallo pulled from his vest pocket as a gun.

"Mayo is correct that you can't get a patent by tacking a mental step onto an utterly conventional process for administering drugs and testing their effects".

I've got to take a mental step back, maybe look at my preparation, my approach in the game when I am out there, and find out what it is that's allowed me to make these mistakes".

Or after a geometry lesson, someone might note the inherent challenge for children in seeing angles as not just corners of a triangle but as quantities — a more difficult stretch than making the same mental step for area.