PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16079300
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["381", "345000"]

Abstract:
An acoustic manifold for altering a sound wavefront shape from a loudspeaker having a substantially planar driver, comprising a mounting surface configured to attach to a front surface of a case surrounding the driver and having two vertical openings matching corresponding vertical openings in the case to allow sound from the driver to project therethrough, and a waveguide portion coupled to the mounting surface and having a structure channeling sound projected from the driver through the two vertical openings to be combined in one output area. The structure has a plurality of reflective surfaces configured to create output sound that has a consistent dispersion pattern over a defined area. The manifold is configured to increase a vertical and/or horizontal beamwidth of the projected sound so that listeners positioned off an axis of the loudspeaker will hear a wide range of audible frequencies at a substantially similar sound level.

Claim (Index 7):
The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein the manifold structure is configured to increase at least one of a vertical beamwidth or horizontal beamwidth of the projected sound so that listeners positioned off an axis of the loudspeaker will hear a wide range of frequencies at a substantially similar sound level, the range of frequencies comprising approximately 200 Hz to 20 kHz.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86585
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15752883', '12530383', '15305921', '14536780', '15099474']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7028537501740276
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5087746877228471
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6834458439289096
- Mean Citation Score: 241.453326
- Max Citation Score: 268.23907
- Similarity Product: 176.4106204071951

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