PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990224
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["084", "293000"]

Abstract:
An intonation system for a stringed musical instrument and a stringed instrument including the intonation system. 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 a nut having nut string saddles that are adjustable individually to adjust the position of the nut end of the string. The structures by which the string saddle positions are adjusted are substantially concealed, largely retaining a conventional appearance of the musical instrument.

Claim (Index 7):
A stringed musical instrument including an intonation adjustment system, the musical instrument comprising:\n (a) a tone body; (b) a neck extending from the body; (c) a fingerboard extending along the neck and having an outer end; (d) a bridge mounted on the body; (e) a nut located at the outer end of the fingerboard; and (f) a plurality of strings extending from the bridge and along the fingerboard to the nut; and wherein (g) the bridge includes a base member and a plurality of separate bridge string saddle assemblies mounted in the bridge base member, each bridge string saddle assembly including a string saddle element that is movable within an available range of potential positions with respect to the bridge base member, in a direction toward or away from the nut, and each string saddle element thus establishing a bridge end of a vibrating length of a respective one of the plurality of strings at a selected position with respect to the bridge base member; and wherein (h) the nut includes a nut base member defining a plurality of saddle receptacle cavities, the nut including a plurality of nut saddles each held in a respective one of the saddle receptacle cavities and each including an adjustment mechanism arranged to interact with the respective one of the saddle receptacle cavities to locate and hold each nut saddle in a selected position of adjustment, within an available range of potential positions with respect to the nut base member, in a direction toward or away from the bridge, and each nut saddle thus establishing a nut end of the vibrating length of the respective one of the plurality of strings at a selected position with respect to the nut base member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01852
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11081970', '10700698', '14117372', '10341219', '14084087']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6926797347700142
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5253419763740178
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6759459589304145
- Mean Citation Score: 357.63807800000006
- Max Citation Score: 387.14908
- Similarity Product: 312.5558946565938

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

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