PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15932083
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["084", "46400A"]

Abstract:
The present invention is a device and method for teaching note locations, fretboard patterns, scales, chords, and songs on the fingerboard of a fretted stringed instrument (“fretboard”), such as an electric or acoustic guitar, bass guitar, or other fretted instrument. The invention comprises a set of affixable fretboard strips (“strips”) that adhere to the surface of the stringed instrument, using a mild adhesive or other means of attachment, so as not to damage the instrument, and a number of electronic illuminable markings, such as LED lights, which indicate musical notes and concepts. Once applied to an instrument, an external controller illuminates the electronic illuminable markings in sequence in order to communicate the note positions of notes, scales, chords, playable patterns and songs in order to teach the same to would be students.

Claim (Index 2):
a method of affixing illuminable visual sequential or non-sequential cues for indicating musical concepts, scales, melodies, chords, patterns, and songs to a surface of a fretboard of a stringed instrument, comprising:\n illuminable musical indicia indicating musical note positions or musical concepts, scales, melodies, chords, patterns, and songs on a set of affixable light strips; and affixing the set of strips to the surface of the fretboard of a string instrument; wherein each sticker within the set is placed between frets and underneath strings of the stringed instrument.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93902
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12981252', '15428886', '14993255', '13253781', '14698074']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.643590053251779
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5088838706408011
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6301194349906811
- Mean Citation Score: 285.208774
- Max Citation Score: 336.10596
- Similarity Product: 275.82793417405844

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

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