PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16287052
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["381", "074000"]

Abstract:
An earpiece for reproducing audio has multiple drivers, including a bone conduction bass driver and an air conduction treble driver, attached to the ends of a malleable, yet stiff, tubing. The bass driver is placed behind or over the ear to provide a high quality bass output while the treble driver is placed so as to extend in proximity to the user's ear canal. The malleable, yet stiff, tubing enables a user to bend the earpiece and thereby position the earpiece comfortably and securely around the user's ear and to optimally position the drivers in the desired positions around the user's ear. The tubing also allows the earpiece, when not in use, to be reshaped for easy storage or to be worn as an accessory. The earpiece may also include one or more microphones with the treble and/or bass drivers.

Claim (Index 1):
An earpiece, comprising:\n (a) a first speaker driver configured to be positioned behind a user's ear and on skin of the user so as to perform bone conduction via a mastoid bone of the user to reproduce a first range of frequencies of an audio signal that are below a first predetermined value using bone conduction of sound; (b) a second speaker driver configured to be positioned away from the first speaker driver and outside of the user's ear canal when worn and electrically connected to the first speaker driver to reproduce a second range of frequencies of the audio signal that are above a second predetermined value which is the same as or greater than the first predetermined value using air conduction of sound; and (c) a malleable tubing, connecting the first and second speaker drivers, that enables the first and second speaker drivers to be adjusted to fit on the user's ear.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02597
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15487699', '12272131', '15356642', '14732292', '16044290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7221511926855012
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6136051790486514
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7112965913218163
- Mean Citation Score: 325.049348
- Max Citation Score: 557.0384
- Similarity Product: 520.2208171823502

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

Dataset: test