PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974042
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["381", "322000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein, among other thing, are apparatus and methods to provide improved connections for components of hearing assistance devices. Various embodiments include an apparatus including a receiver case configured to house a hearing assistance device receiver, the receiver case including a spherical receiver spout having an opening. The apparatus also includes a receptacle housing having a spherical socket adapted to mate with the spherical receiver spout to form a ball and socket connection. An insert within the spherical socket is configured to establish a retained interference fit with the opening of the receiver spout when the connection is formed so as to create an acoustic seal therebetween.

Claim (Index 21):
The device of  claim 13 , wherein the hearing assistance device includes a cochlear implant.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75385
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13408826', '14730474', '14039675', '14024342', '13889212']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6967586872402329
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5505131713152004
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6821341356477296
- Mean Citation Score: 296.7727720000001
- Max Citation Score: 397.39438
- Similarity Product: 305.44212368363026

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

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