PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862278
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["433", "010000"]

Abstract:
An orthodontic bracket is disclosed having three archwire retention channels in the mesial-distal directions, a central channel and two side channels. The two side channels each include a pair of spaced apart inverted archwire retaining regions having a recess that opens generally towards the bracket base. Each such recess is for grasping or holding an archwire therein. Other aspects are directed to a self ligating orthodontic bracket system that includes a rotatable member for securing an archwire within a slot of a bracket; embodiments that include an orthodontic appliance and method of producing and using the same, and preferably employed in a lingual orthodontic system, that includes friction reducing features between an interior of an archwire slot portion of the appliance and an archwire placed within the archwire slot.

Claim (Index 20):
The method as set forth in  claim 14 , wherein said brackets comprise bracket bodies positioned individually with respect to each lingual surface of the teeth so that the orthodontic archwire passes through them.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77922
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14658781', '15410250', '14743142', '13762994', '12937588']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8495802988476038
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.7030402422035565
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8349262931831991
- Mean Citation Score: 682.028634
- Max Citation Score: 731.003
- Similarity Product: 690.4364940242767

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

Dataset: test