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 1):
a device comprising:\n a set of affixable light strips for a stringed instrument, wherein each light contained on each light strip corresponds to a permissible musical note position, which may illuminate in a variety of sequences and rhythms according to cues sent from a controller device to communicate musical concepts, scales, melodies, chords, patterns, and songs, further wherein each strip temporarily affixes to and can be removed from a stringed instrument using an attachment mechanism or adhesive element.

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): 0.643607220008759
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5095354817929075
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.630200046187174
- Mean Citation Score: 285.208774
- Max Citation Score: 336.10596
- Similarity Product: 267.95221368247746

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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