PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058539
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["600", "200000"]

Abstract:
An instrument for use with an otoscope to examine an ear and remove cerumen (i.e., ear wax) from an ear canal includes a speculum having a channel extending between a tip and a rear with the tip having a first side and a second side opposite the first side and a curette having a through hole a first end connected to the first side of the speculum, and a second end connected to the second side of the speculum.

Claim (Index 10):
The instrument of  claim 1 , wherein the curette has a substantially rectangular cross-sectional shape that allows the curette to bend under stress coming from a direction of the first end and the second end.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04878
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13224914', '14461103', '14501993', '13480524', '10897455']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4949580650598645
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4893407078218005
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4943963293360581
- Mean Citation Score: 205.471662
- Max Citation Score: 208.51404
- Similarity Product: 135.4166104566693

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

Dataset: test