PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16436520
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["482", "011000"]

Abstract:
A facial exercise apparatus for facial muscle and bone resistance training and method of use. The facial exercise apparatus includes one or more flexor arms and a mouthpiece stabilizer, each connected to a flexor head connector. The flexor arm(s) extend upward, downward, left or right from the flexor head connector, have contours to place the patient's lips, and provide a resistance force outward from the flexor head connector. In use, a patient places and bites down upon the mouthpiece stabilizer, places a portion of their lips along a contoured portion of one or more of the flexor arms, and pushes their lips toward the center of the flexor head connector against the resistance of the flexor arm(s). When done at regular intervals and increasing resistances, the apparatus can strengthen a patient's facial muscles and bone and reduce the cosmetic appearance of wrinkles on their face.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of strengthening facial muscles and reducing an appearance of wrinkles on a face of a patient, the method comprising:\n providing a facial exercise apparatus to a patient, said facial exercise apparatus comprising an at least one flexor arm, a flexor head having a substantially cylindrical portion and a front and rear end, and a mouthpiece stabilizer, said at least one flexor arm capable of being connected to said flexor head at an at least one location along said substantially cylindrical portion and said mouthpiece stabilizer capable of being connected to said flexor head at said rear end; securing said facial exercise apparatus within said mouth of said patient by having said patient insert said mouthpiece stabilizer into a mouth of said patient and bite down on said mouthpiece stabilizer; fitting said at least one flexor arm around an at least one lip portion of said patient; and instructing said patient to perform a set of resistance exercises by moving said at least one lip portion toward said flexor head.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11392
- Patent Class: 482.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14952980', '14153785', '14231710', '12732047', '10370502']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6398514011807453
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4626441873253473
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6221306797952055
- Mean Citation Score: 156.78233
- Max Citation Score: 172.90283
- Similarity Product: 124.43488584223508

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

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