PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15993456
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "151000"]

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a cartilage conduction audio device is disclosed. A manufacturing system receives data describing a three-dimensional shape of an ear (e.g., the outer ear, behind the ear, the concha bowel, etc.) of a user. The system identifies one or more locations for one or more transducers along a back of an auricle of the ear for the user that vibrate the auricle over a frequency range causing the auricle to create an acoustic pressure wave at an entrance of the ear canal. The system then generates a design for a cartilage conduction audio device for the user based on the one or more identified locations of the transducers at which acoustic pressure waves generated by the one or more transducers satisfy a threshold performance metric for the user. The design may then be used to fabricate the cartilage conduction audio device.

Claim (Index 16):
A cartilage conduction audio device manufactured by a process comprising the steps of:\n receiving data describing a shape of an ear of a user for use in generating a cartilage conduction audio device, the shape including an external rear portion of the ear; generating, for the cartilage conduction audio device, a device body customized for the user based on rear ear geometry of the user that conforms to the surface of the external rear portion of the ear of the user and based on one or more identified locations for one or more transducers, wherein:\n each of the one or more transducers is configured to vibrate the external rear portion of the ear over a frequency range to cause the external rear portion of the ear to create an acoustic pressure wave that propagates towards an entrance of the ear of the user without occluding the entrance, \n the one or more identified locations corresponding to one or more locations at which acoustic pressure waves generated by the one or more transducers satisfy a threshold performance metric, and \n the device body is configured for placement of the one or more transducers at the one or more identified locations; and \n providing a transducer of the one or more transducers in the device body corresponding to the location for each transducer at each of the one or more identified locations, wherein the one or more transducers are coupled to a controller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10811
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15680836', '15815831', '13221121', '14509254', '13489971']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6926205524849268
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.506100586133698
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6739685558498039
- Mean Citation Score: 196.96916
- Max Citation Score: 283.99747
- Similarity Product: 214.5783248574781

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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