PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897384
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["132", "208000"]

Abstract:
A hair-penetrating shield  220  comprises a tooth array having top  280  and bottom  290  surfaces. In some embodiments, for a majority of the teeth, a cross section of each tooth (for example, triangular in shape) has an asymmetric width profile such that the tooth cross section, on average, is narrower near the top of the tooth and wider near the bottom of the tooth. In some embodiments, a ratio between: i) a first average tooth width describing the average tooth width below the top-bottom midpoint; and ii) a second average tooth width describing the average tooth width above the top-bottom midpoint is at least 1.2, or at least 1.6. In some embodiments, a non-viscous hair-coloring agent is dispensed as a mist over the top of the surface of the shield so as to color roots of hair passing through the spaces between the teeth of the user's hair. In some embodiments, closely-spaced teeth of the hair penetrating shield protect the user's scalp from the non-viscous hair-coloring agent. Related methods and kits are disclosed herein.

Claim (Index 32):
A method of touching up hair roots of an individual, the method comprising:\n a. providing a hair-penetrating shield comprising a tooth array having top and bottom surfaces and having proximal and distal ends, the tooth array including at least eight closely-spaced teeth such that for a majority of teeth of the tooth array:\n i. each tooth of the majority includes a main portion and a tapered distal portion for facilitating hair penetration; and \n ii. for each tooth of the majority, the main portion includes a section having a length of at least 2.5 cm where for most locations along the tooth axis within the section:\n A. a cross section of the tooth has an asymmetric width profile along the shield thickness axis such that the tooth cross section, on average, is narrower near the top of the tooth and the tooth cross section, on average, is wider near the bottom of the tooth; \n B. the tooth cross-section is less than 5 mm\u22272; and \n C. the tooth is separated from a laterally neighboring tooth to provide a minimum gap distance that is between 0.3 mm and 1 mm, and \n \n b. engaging the hair-penetrating shield to a user's head so that the bottom surface of the shield faces that user's scalp and so that root regions of the user's hair pass through spaces between the teeth of the shield; and c. dispensing a non-viscous hair-coloring agent as a mist on the top surface of the shield so as to color the root regions of the user's hair such that the hair-penetrating shield protects, from the non-viscous hair-coloring agent, the user's scalp that is facing the bottom surface of the shield.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09574
- Patent Class: 132.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13169115', '12817524', '13703484', '14476862', '13556824']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7650560785343906
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5768871847358791
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7462391891545395
- Mean Citation Score: 263.4148
- Max Citation Score: 534.8852
- Similarity Product: 502.5279473179341

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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