PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16194409
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["381", "313000"]

Abstract:
Hearing aid apparatus includes a case, which is configured to be physically fixed to a mobile telephone. An array of microphones are spaced apart within the case and are configured to produce electrical signals in response to acoustical inputs to the microphones. An interface is fixed within the case. Processing circuitry is fixed within the case and is coupled to receive and process the electrical signals from the microphones so as to generate a combined signal for output via the interface.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for hearing assistance, comprising:\n providing a case, containing an array of microphones spaced apart within the case, and configured to be physically fixed to a mobile telephone; conveying electrical signals from the microphones via a device interface within the case to the mobile telephone; mixing the electrical signals from the microphones by an application running on the mobile telephone so as to generate a combined audio signal in accordance with a directional response that defines a beam direction and an angular aperture around the beam direction, such that the acoustical inputs within the angular aperture are emphasized by the application, while suppressing the acoustical inputs outside the angular aperture; and outputting the combined audio signal to an earphone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7551
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15891396', '14795266', '14099242', '10528495', '15482006']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7045717980856295
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5172810378411518
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6858427220611818
- Mean Citation Score: 225.06124
- Max Citation Score: 325.55112
- Similarity Product: 262.43130199132924

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