PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884850
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["381", "318000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein, among other things, are methods and apparatus for own-voice sensing in hearing assistance devices. One aspect of the present subject matter includes an in-the-ear (ITE) hearing assistance device adapted to process sounds, including sounds from a wearer's mouth. According to various embodiments, the device includes a hollow plastic housing adapted to be worn in the ear of the wearer and a differential sensor mounted to an interior surface of the housing in an ear canal of the wearer. The differential sensor includes inlets located within the housing and the differential sensor is configured to improve speech intelligibility of sounds from the wearer's mouth, in various embodiments.

Claim (Index 9):
The hearing assistance device of  claim 2 , wherein the hearing assistance device includes a hearing aid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83333
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14720036', '13966058', '14462043', '12649634', '12649618']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7637197954294882
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5987462106704939
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7472224369535888
- Mean Citation Score: 407.15641
- Max Citation Score: 580.7656
- Similarity Product: 440.18388322300905

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

Dataset: test