PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16240933
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["084", "313000"]

Abstract:
An improved Bigsby vibrato device for a guitar. The improved device includes a mechanical stop which ensures that the device returns to its original neutral position after being used, thereby preventing mistuning of the guitar. The mechanical stop may be a hard stop which prevents the device from increasing tension on the guitar strings (thereby raising the pitch) beyond the neutral position, or it may be a spring stop which allows the user to increase the tension on the strings beyond the neutral position by pulling upward on the device arm with a force sufficient to overcome the spring stop.

Claim (Index 7):
The vibrato device of  claim 6 , further comprising:\n a first spring biasing the arm in an upward direction; and the spring stop comprises a second spring providing a force sufficient to stop upward movement of the arm at the neutral position in the absence of the force being applied to the arm by the user, but allowing the arm to move upward past the neutral position in response to the force being applied to the arm by the user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81356
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11949097', '12836730', '12500708', '13978841', '14203441']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5667750939515356
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4867028939422496
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.558767873950607
- Mean Citation Score: 199.293268
- Max Citation Score: 206.73093
- Similarity Product: 142.2975350370777

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

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