PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16265685
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["381", "380000"]

Abstract:
An earpiece with structure for positioning and retaining the earpiece and with structure for sealing against the entrance to the ear canal to provide passive noise attenuation. The positioning and retaining structure engages features of the lateral surface of the ear. The structure for sealing against the entrance to the ear canal includes a conical structure.

Claim (Index 1):
An ear tip for an in-ear earpiece, comprising:\n a body configured to fit within the concha of a wearer's ear; an outlet extending towards the ear canal of the wearer's ear when the ear tip is placed in the wearer's ear, the outlet comprising an acoustic passage to conduct sound waves to the wearer's ear canal; a sealing structure extending from an end of the outlet, wherein the sealing structure has a substantially uniform thickness; and a retaining structure extending from the body and shaped to generally follow the curve of the antihelix of the wearer's ear, wherein, when the ear tip is placed in an ear,\n the retaining structure applies pressure to the antihelix of the wearer's ear to orient the body and the sealing structure so that the sealing structure is positioned at the entrance of the ear canal, and \n the sealing structure forms a substantial seal with the flesh of the entrance of the ear canal of the wearer's ear.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03448
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15137632', '14272845', '13193288', '15293379', '13413987']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7664658050210763
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5764068866214174
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7474599131811105
- Mean Citation Score: 396.28932
- Max Citation Score: 478.39908
- Similarity Product: 437.134332962308

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

Dataset: test