PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977245
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["381", "073100"]

Abstract:
A sound masking device comprises a housing having an open end, a white noise generator within the housing, and a speaker to receive a white noise signal from the white noise generator and to emit a white noise corresponding to the white noise signal. The speaker is set back from the open end and positioned within the housing to emit the white noise toward the open end. The housing may comprise a shelf or shoulder around an inner surface of the housing located between the speaker and the open end.

Claim (Index 3):
The device of  claim 1 , wherein the open end is adapted to receive an upper portion of an active listening device such that the upper portion of the active listening device contacts an inner surface of the housing located between the speaker and the open end to block the white noise from escaping between the upper portion of the active listening device and the inner surface of the housing located between the speaker and the open end.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2093
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14894322', '14419912', '14849502', '15273691', '10356735']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6430493143325979
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4792160736120213
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6266659902605403
- Mean Citation Score: 136.047158
- Max Citation Score: 138.14337
- Similarity Product: 97.69061773925544

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