PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006275
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "328000"]

Abstract:
A hearing aid ( 1 ) comprises a flexible ear tip ( 36 ) for an ear piece ( 62 ) adapted for insertion into the ear canal of a user. The ear piece comprises a shroud having a generally ball-shaped hollow bulb made of soft resilient material. The shroud is oval for better adaptation to the ear canal, as ear canals of humans are generally oval. The invention further provides an ear piece, an ear plug, and a component for a communications device.

Claim (Index 1):
An ear piece adapted for insertion into the ear canal of a user, and for providing acoustic insulation between the inner part of the ear canal and the surroundings, the ear piece comprising an ear tip with a stem and a shroud, the stem defining a sound conduit with an adapter for engaging a sound feeder means and a sound output opening, and the shroud having a generally ball-shaped hollow bulb made of soft resilient material, the bulb having an axis generally along the intended direction of insertion into the ear canal, wherein the shroud is oval as seen in a direction along the axis, and wherein the bulb is rotatable relative to the sound feeder means around the axis of the sound conduit means.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71698
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16006276', '13702665', '13352951', '11997738', '13380210']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6797264390668224
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5921878124263859
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6709725764027787
- Mean Citation Score: 262.837754
- Max Citation Score: 507.59482
- Similarity Product: 463.1733872099663

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test