PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905240
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["381", "380000"]

Abstract:
A positioning and retaining structure for an in-ear earpiece. An outer leg and an inner leg are attached to each other at an attachment end and attached to a body of the earpiece at the other end. The outer leg lies in a plane. The positioning and retaining structure have a stiffness that is greater when force is applied to the attachment end in a counterclockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg than when force is applied to the attachment end in a clockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg. The positioning and retaining structure position an earpiece associated with the earpiece in a user's ear and retains the earpiece in its position.

Claim (Index 15):
An earphone comprising:\n an acoustic driver that converts applied audio signals to acoustic energy; a housing containing the acoustic driver, the housing including a front chamber acoustically coupled to the acoustic driver and a nozzle acoustically coupled to the front chamber; and an ear interface comprising:\n a body portion that fits beneath the tragus and anti-tragus and fits in at least a part of the concha of a user's ear when worn by the user, \n a compliant outlet extending into at least the entrance of the user's ear canal when worn by the user, the outlet being coupled to the nozzle of the housing and providing a passageway for conducting acoustic energy from the acoustic driver to the user's ear canal, and \n a compliant retaining member that terminates at an extremity, \n wherein the retaining member applies pressure to the antihelix of the user's ear along substantially the entire length of an outer edge of the retaining member when the ear interface is fit into the user's ear, and \n the extremity of the retaining member seats at the end of the antihelix under the base of the helix of the user's ear.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15293379', '14564972', '14553350', '14553386', '14084143']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8060023397370085
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.621439504854575
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7875460562487652
- Mean Citation Score: 551.4802320000001
- Max Citation Score: 575.9057
- Similarity Product: 548.55991978153

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

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