PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936757
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["433", "006000"]

Abstract:
A removable, thin-shell tooth positioning appliance having a plurality of tooth-clasping elements for removably engaging attachments bonded onto selected teeth, with flexible curved interconnecting elements connecting the tooth-clasping elements on nearby teeth.

Claim (Index 12):
A tooth-positioning appliance removably securable to a patient's teeth, said appliance comprising:\n attachments adapted to be bonded to protrude from selected teeth; a plurality of thin-shelled appliance segments, each having recesses for removably engaging a group of teeth and extending from the lingual aspect, over the occlusal aspect and to the labial aspect of the teeth with opposing lateral edges; and having tooth-clasping elements for removably engaging the bonded attachments on selected teeth in said group, to thereby attach the appliance segment to the selected teeth; and a flexible curved interconnecting element extending between a plurality of appliance segments with curved segments extending between adjacent appliance segments.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.16667
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14566474', '14645622', '15790558', '11532319', '14148453']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6935109054255942
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6563772272687826
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6897975376099131
- Mean Citation Score: 429.12291000000016
- Max Citation Score: 654.5055
- Similarity Product: 644.4793320095837

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

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