PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006275
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "328000"]

Abstract:
A hearing aid ( 1 ) comprises a flexible ear tip ( 36 ) for an ear piece ( 62 ) adapted for insertion into the ear canal of a user. The ear piece comprises a shroud having a generally ball-shaped hollow bulb made of soft resilient material. The shroud is oval for better adaptation to the ear canal, as ear canals of humans are generally oval. The invention further provides an ear piece, an ear plug, and a component for a communications device.

Claim (Index 14):
The ear piece according to  claim 3 , wherein the bulb comprises webs bridging the spaces between the valleys in the pleats for sealing against passage of air along the valleys.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71698
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16006276', '13702665', '13352951', '11997738', '13380210']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7083860183704239
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5850468013202332
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6960520966654049
- Mean Citation Score: 262.837754
- Max Citation Score: 507.59482
- Similarity Product: 416.60632969621423

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