PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914932
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["433", "006000"]

Abstract:
Provided herein is an orthodontic aligning appliance for moving tooth or teeth of a patient and methods of making and using the same.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of aligning a tooth or teeth of target of a patient, comprising:\n forming an appliance, and applying the appliance to the patient to move the tooth or teeth of target from an original position(s) to a prescribed position(s) according to a prescription by a treating doctor, wherein forming the appliance comprises:\n creating a dental model of a patient tooth and bite, constructing individual teeth from the dental model, \n moving a tooth or teeth of target of alignment according to a prescription by a treating doctor to create an aligned dental model of the patient, and \n forming at least one appliance from the aligned dental model of the patient, \n wherein the appliance comprises an appliance forming material comprising an elastic material in an amount that imparts to the appliance elastic properties such that the appliance exerts a continuous aligning force on a tooth or teeth, and wherein the elastic material is a material other than polyester, and wherein the elastic material accounts for all or substantially all the elastic properties of the appliance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.09091
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15914929', '15914935', '12511943', '11074297', '13391322']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6923377570042706
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4864919807306113
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6717531793769047
- Mean Citation Score: 288.609734
- Max Citation Score: 336.779
- Similarity Product: 277.6881444689631

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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