PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16377928
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["601", "009000"]

Abstract:
A method for external ear canal pressure regulation to alleviate one or more symptoms associated with a disorder or treat one or more disorders, the method including providing a fluid transfer device which generates a fluid flow of a fluid through an earplug, the earplug having an earplug external surface configured to sealably engage an external ear canal wall as a barrier between an external ear canal pressure and an ambient pressure; sealably engaging the earplug of the fluid transfer device with the external ear canal wall as the barrier between the external ear canal pressure and the ambient pressure; and operating the fluid transfer device to generate the fluid flow of the fluid through the earplug to achieve an external ear canal pressure differential between the external ear canal pressure and the ambient pressure effective to alleviate a disorder symptom or treat a disorder.

Claim (Index 44):
The method of  claim 21 , wherein controlling the flow of fluid through the earpiece to make the at least one pressure adjustment comprises producing a negative pressure differential with the first pressure in the first external ear canal less than the ambient pressure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 85.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77778
- Patent Class: 601.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14292469', '14316668', '14702428', '15691668', '14936332']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6889552367314093
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5700346724387457
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6770631803021431
- Mean Citation Score: 394.109764
- Max Citation Score: 509.904
- Similarity Product: 356.3910145998001

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

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