PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974348
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["015", "022100"]

Abstract:
A fingernail brush that includes bristles that are angularly adjustable by a user of the brush. In one embodiment, the fingernail brush includes a housing and a bristle assembly having a bristle support and at least one row of bristles. The bristle assembly is rotatably coupled to the housing so that a user can rotate the bristles to a desired relative bristle angle. In some embodiments, the bristles are present in a bristle channel formed as a recess in a face of the housing. The angular adjustability of the bristles allows a user to set the bristles to a relative bristle angle appropriate for the way the user intends to orient their fingertips relative to the fingernail brush. In some embodiments, a fingernail brush of the present disclosure may include one or more vibration generators that cause bristles to vibrate at a sonic frequency, an ultrasonic frequency, or both, to enhance cleaning efficacy.

Claim (Index 23):
A fingernail brush, comprising:\n a housing sized and configured for gripping by a human hand, the housing comprising:\n first and second faces spaced from one another; \n lateral sides located adjacent each of the first and second faces and providing gripping regions for a user to grip and hold the fingernail brush during use of the brush to clean one or more fingertips and/or one or more fingernails; and \n a bristle opening extending through the first face along a longitudinal axis; \n a bristle assembly that includes:\n a bristle support pivotably secured within the housing so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis parallel to the longitudinal axis, the bristle support being elongate along the pivot axis; and \n a first plurality of bristles secured to the bristle support so as to extend through the bristle opening of the housing, the first plurality of bristles arranged in a line parallel to the pivot axis of the bristle support and the longitudinal axis of the bristle opening; \n a bristle-angle-adjustment mechanism operatively configured to permit a user to pivot the bristle support about the pivot axis so as to adjust the plurality of bristles to a desired bristle sweep angle from among a plurality of bristle sweep angles and hold the first plurality of bristles at the desired bristle sweep angle; and a second plurality of bristles fixedly secured to the housing and extending from the second face.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17105
- Patent Class: 15.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15439040', '13855393', '12419613', '10383094', '15701797']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8217876608198877
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5581423356605889
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7954231283039579
- Mean Citation Score: 290.552498
- Max Citation Score: 505.89453
- Similarity Product: 420.4220704071575

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