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 6):
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 and 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 the base member of the bridge defines a saddle receptacle cavity, one of the bridge string saddle assemblies being located in the saddle receptacle cavity, and the adjustable bridge including a shim located within the saddle receptacle cavity beneath the one of the bridge string saddle assemblies, thereby supporting the one of the bridge string saddle assemblies at a selected height with respect to the body of the stringed musical instrument; and (c) 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 a 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): 0.6930589351137805
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.52495706368298
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6762487479707004
- Mean Citation Score: 357.63807800000006
- Max Citation Score: 387.14908
- Similarity Product: 299.936547839098

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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