PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965185
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["600", "301000"]

Abstract:
Mouth guards having electrodes, sensors, and/or accelerometers for determining one or more physiological conditions of a subject. Processing circuitry receives the outputs of the electrodes, sensors, and/or accelerometers. Optionally, at least a portion of the processing circuitry can be positioned within a helmet that is worn by a subject. The mouth guard can optionally be tethered to the helmet.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for determining at least one physiological condition of a subject, the subject having a head, a mouth, and upper and lower teeth, the method comprising:\n positioning a mouth guard within the mouth of the subject, the mouth guard comprising:\n a U-shaped element having an outer side wall, an inner side wall, and at least one biting surface, the outer side wall, the inner side wall, and the at least one biting surface together defining at least one channel that receives at least one of the upper teeth and the lower teeth of the subject; \n a plurality of electrodes operatively associated with the U-shaped element, the plurality of electrodes being spaced from one another about the U-shaped element and positioned in contact with tissue of the mouth of the subject when the at least one channel of the mouth guard receives at least one of the upper teeth and the lower teeth of the subject; \n using processing circuitry in operative communication with the plurality of electrodes of the mouth guard to measure the impedance between respective electrodes of the plurality of electrodes through tissue within the mouth of the subject; and using the processing circuitry to determine a respiratory rate of the subject based upon the measured impedance between respective electrodes of the plurality of electrodes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54545
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14144907', '14144791', '12396233', '13444701', '13184385']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4489263633336349
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5288580020579853
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4569195272060699
- Mean Citation Score: 205.571088
- Max Citation Score: 379.96304
- Similarity Product: 369.43536608688345

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

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