PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905548
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["433", "029000"]

Abstract:
A dental instrument and method for imaging the three-dimensional topography of one or more teeth in the oral cavity of an individual is provided. The instrument includes a probe insertable into the oral cavity to receive the image of these surfaces which can then be processed. Combined with the probe is an auxiliary which projects an air stream toward the surface to be imaged by the probe and acts to evaporate and remove from these surfaces a liquid film coating formed by saliva and other fluids present in the oral cavity, to render these surfaces dry and to enhance their reflectivity and in doing so, provide clearer images.

Claim (Index 36):
The method according to  claim 29 , further comprising processing the image to produce digital data associated with the 3D topography of the tooth surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56944
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10174271', '15158366', '11703085', '11032851', '14411160']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6762074852980873
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5121156648638862
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6597983032546672
- Mean Citation Score: 255.794842
- Max Citation Score: 330.46414
- Similarity Product: 247.43265170662403

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

Dataset: test