PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "328000"]

Abstract:
A hearing aid ( 1 ) comprises a flexible ear tip ( 9 ) for an ear piece ( 8 ) adapted for insertion into the ear canal of a user. The ear piece comprises a shroud having a generally ball-shaped hollow bulb made of soft resilient material, featuring a mid zone that is adapted for being softer to compression by the contact with ear canal wall than is the case with the end zones. The invention further provides an ear piece, an ear plug, and a component for a communications device.

Claim (Index 4):
The ear piece according to  claim 3 , wherein the pleats are deepest at the midpoint between the first end zone and the second end zone and gradually taper out adjacent the first end zone and the second end zone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60656
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13380210', '13352951', '13702665', '11997738', '13593205']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6673558218127744
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5042133724075887
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.651041576872256
- Mean Citation Score: 181.155482
- Max Citation Score: 183.63347
- Similarity Product: 113.76723580489576

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