PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058539
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["600", "200000"]

Abstract:
An instrument for use with an otoscope to examine an ear and remove cerumen (i.e., ear wax) from an ear canal includes a speculum having a channel extending between a tip and a rear with the tip having a first side and a second side opposite the first side and a curette having a through hole a first end connected to the first side of the speculum, and a second end connected to the second side of the speculum.

Claim (Index 19):
The system of  claim 13 , wherein the loop is configured to be inserted into the ear canal to remove cerumen while also allowing examination of the ear canal by viewing the ear canal through the channel in the speculum.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04878
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13224914', '14461103', '14501993', '13480524', '10897455']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5003708177714022
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4674835230221496
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.497082088296477
- Mean Citation Score: 205.471662
- Max Citation Score: 208.51404
- Similarity Product: 171.3914498285079

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