PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16111091
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["128", "207180"]

Abstract:
A sleep apnea device with bleed for exhaling including a peripheral wall formed with an interior through passage formed with a proximally facing seat, bleed passages in the wall bypassing the seat and a ball to close against the seat.

Claim (Index 13):
A sleep apnea device for insertion in a patient's nasal vestibule and comprising:\n a valve including a tubular housing having a distally converging, interior through passage and formed on its exterior with a reduced-in-diameter proximal section terminating in an intermediate, proximally facing shoulder; the housing further including a hat-shaped tubular cap formed with an inlet for passage of air to the through passage and configured with a peripheral wall formed to be received over the proximal section and further formed with a distal end to be abutted against the proximally facing shoulder; and a ball received in the passage to be trapped between the end wall and seat and configured with a diameter larger than the seat diameter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.35484
- Patent Class: 128.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14746357', '12884151', '11775841', '11298362', '12885366']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6830650742744804
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5169451667837726
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6664530835254096
- Mean Citation Score: 259.932324
- Max Citation Score: 368.88568
- Similarity Product: 298.626934143219

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

Dataset: test