PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16213271
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["084", "293000"]

Abstract:
An intonation system for a stringed musical instrument, a stringed instrument including the intonation system, and a method of setting up a stringed instrument. An instrument such as a guitar includes a bridge having bridge string saddles that can be adjusted separately to raise or lower a single string and to adjust the position of the bridge end of the vibrating length of the string. The instrument also includes an adjustable nut assembly by which to adjust the position of the nut end of each string individually. The structures by which the string saddle positions are adjusted are substantially concealed, largely retaining a conventional appearance of the musical instrument.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of setting up a multi-stringed instrument having an adjustable bridge and a neck including a nut assembly and a fingerboard having frets spaced apart from one another along the fingerboard, from a first fret adjacent an outer end of the neck, comprising:\n (a) tuning each of a plurality of strings to a respective fundamental frequency: (b) thereafter determining an amount of error in a tone of one of the plurality of strings when fretted on a fret other than the first fret; (c) thereafter adjusting the length of the one of the plurality of strings by adjusting the bridge so as to reduce the error in the tone of that string when fretted on the fret other than the first fret; (d) thereafter, again tuning the one of the plurality of strings to its respective fundamental frequency and then determining an amount of error in tone when fretting that string on the first fret; (e) thereafter, adjusting the length of that one of the plurality of strings by adjusting the nut assembly with respect to that string; (f) thereafter, repeating steps (b) through (e) with respect to each other one of the plurality of strings.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93333
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15990224', '11081970', '10700698', '11035618', '14117372']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7001186950318435
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6049378711679368
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6906006126454528
- Mean Citation Score: 462.373078
- Max Citation Score: 601.61475
- Similarity Product: 489.9653901864141

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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