PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990224
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["084", "293000"]

Abstract:
An intonation system for a stringed musical instrument and a stringed instrument including the intonation system. An instrument such as a guitar includes a bridge having bridge string saddles that can be adjusted separately to raise or lower a single string and to adjust the position of the bridge end of the vibrating length of the string. The instrument also includes a nut having nut string saddles that are adjustable individually to adjust the position of the nut end of the string. The structures by which the string saddle positions are adjusted are substantially concealed, largely retaining a conventional appearance of the musical instrument.

Claim (Index 4):
An intonation system for a multi-stringed musical instrument having a bridge mounted on a tone body and a neck having an outer end, comprising;\n (a) an adjustable bridge including, a base member and a plurality of saddle assemblies each including a bridge string saddle element defining a string receiving groove, each string saddle element being movable with respect to the base member through a range of potential positions, in a direction parallel with the string-receiving groove; (b) wherein one of the bridge saddle assemblies includes a saddle base member defining a guide channel and a respective bridge string saddle element is mated with the saddle base member and movable with respect to the saddle base member in a direction established by the guide channel, through the range of potential positions; (c) wherein the guide channel defined by the saddle base member is a T-slot and wherein the respective bridge string saddle element includes a lower portion mated in the T-slot and arranged to maintain a directional orientation of the respective one of the string saddles with respect to the saddle base member with which it is mated; (d) wherein the lower portion of the bridge string saddle element includes a depending web and a pair of flanges extending away from the web and engaged in the T-slot, the flanges each having a bottom face and a limited amount of clearance in a direction normal to the bottom face, and wherein the bridge string saddle assembly includes a layer of a frictional material between the bottom face and an opposing interior surface of the T-slot, and wherein a string of the stringed instrument, when supported by the one of the bridge string saddle assemblies, urges the bottom face of each of the flanges and the layer of frictional material against the opposing interior surface of the T-slot, thus keeping the respective bridge string saddle element from moving with respect to the saddle base member with which it is mated; and (e) an adjustable nut including a nut base member defining a plurality of saddle receptacles and including a plurality of nut saddles each held in a respective saddle receptacle and each including a string-receiving groove and an adjustment mechanism arranged to interact with the respective saddle receptacle to retain each nut saddle in a selected position of adjustment in a direction parallel with the respective string-receiving groove and within a range of potential positions with respect to the nut base member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01852
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11081970', '10700698', '14117372', '10341219', '14084087']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6926681332399719
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5253537188134572
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6759366917973204
- Mean Citation Score: 357.63807800000006
- Max Citation Score: 387.14908
- Similarity Product: 312.941492668016

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

Dataset: test