PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874854
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["084", "216000"]

Abstract:
A mute is positioned beneath the strings of a stringed instrument and adjusted to make contact with one or more of the instruments strings. In this manner, the mute may be used to selectively “dampen” or restrict the normal vibration of the strings and, consequently, the sound made by the strings. The end result is that the natural vibratory sounds associated with stringed instruments may be altered, using the mute to remove some or all of the natural frequencies, subharmonics, loudness and sustain associated with the vibration of the strings, essentially “deadening” the natural sound of the instrument. Additionally, in at least some preferred embodiments of the present invention, additional devices may be used to create and introduce new and enhanced sounds from the vibrations of the strings.

Claim (Index 1):
A device for muting string vibration of a stringed instrument, the device comprising:\n a mute body; a mute material; a mute material; and an adjustment mechanism, the adjustment mechanism being configured to selectively alter a distance between the mute material and at least one instrument string of the stringed instrument.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93333
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12657245', '13414849', '10341219', '13347123', '12683850']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6295854505057927
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4799626189768012
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6146231673528936
- Mean Citation Score: 201.984478
- Max Citation Score: 206.38121
- Similarity Product: 140.20751448500158

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