PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16213271
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["084", "293000"]

Abstract:
An intonation system for a stringed musical instrument, a stringed instrument including the intonation system, and a method of setting up a stringed instrument. 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 an adjustable nut assembly by which to adjust the position of the nut end of each string individually. The structures by which the string saddle positions are adjusted are substantially concealed, largely retaining a conventional appearance of the musical instrument.

Claim (Index 22):
A method of setting up a multi-stringed musical instrument having a body and a neck extending away from the body, the neck having a length and a width and an outer end and a nut assembly establishing respective locations of the plurality of strings with respect to the width of the neck at the outer end of the neck to suit a preference of a musician, the method comprising:\n (a) fastening a temporary set-up bracket defining a plurality of wide slots to the outer end of the neck, each wide slot being located at a respective approximate location with respect to the width of the neck and being wide enough to receive a single respective one of the strings of the instrument and too wide to establish a precise location of a string with respect to the width of the neck; (b) installing a set of strings on the instrument with each one of the set of strings extending through a respective wide slot of the temporary set-up bracket; (c) providing a plurality of trial combs, each including a plurality of slots each of which is of a size to snugly hold and definitely locate a single string at a predetermined precise location within a respective one of the wide slots of the temporary set-up bracket and thus to definitely locate each of the set of strings at a predetermined location with respect to the width of the neck and with respect to each other one of the set of strings; (d) installing a first one of the trial combs in a cooperating position with respect to the temporary set-up bracket so that the first one of the trial combs establishes a precise location of each one of the set of strings with respect to the width of the neck, and then playing the instrument with the first one of the trial combs installed; (e) thereafter, replacing the first one of the trial combs with at least one of the other ones of the trial combs so that the at least one of the other ones of the trial combs establishes a precise location of each one of the set of strings, and then playing the instrument with each of the at least one of the other ones of the trial combs installed, in turn; (f) from the experience of playing the instrument with each of the first one and at least one other one of the plurality of trial combs, determining a preferred string placement with respect to the width of the neck; (g) thereafter, removing a final one of the other trial combs and the temporary set-up bracket and installing on the outer end of the neck a permanent string bracket including a set of string-locating slots located with respect to the outer end of the neck to provide the preferred precise location of each of the set of strings with respect to the width of the neck and to provide the preferred spacing between adjacent strings, as determined by playing the instrument with the at least two different trial combs in cooperation with the temporary set-up bracket.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93333
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15990224', '11081970', '10700698', '11035618', '14117372']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7019022637228958
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.599568170627212
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6916688544133274
- Mean Citation Score: 462.373078
- Max Citation Score: 601.61475
- Similarity Product: 471.07269981484114

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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