PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862278
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["433", "010000"]

Abstract:
An orthodontic bracket is disclosed having three archwire retention channels in the mesial-distal directions, a central channel and two side channels. The two side channels each include a pair of spaced apart inverted archwire retaining regions having a recess that opens generally towards the bracket base. Each such recess is for grasping or holding an archwire therein. Other aspects are directed to a self ligating orthodontic bracket system that includes a rotatable member for securing an archwire within a slot of a bracket; embodiments that include an orthodontic appliance and method of producing and using the same, and preferably employed in a lingual orthodontic system, that includes friction reducing features between an interior of an archwire slot portion of the appliance and an archwire placed within the archwire slot.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of producing a customized lingual orthodontic appliance, comprising:\n employing a 3D initial representation of the teeth of a patient, constructing, by a processing device, a numerical representation of a lingual bracket, with each bracket from a dental arch final numerical representation, the operation of constructing the numerical representation of each bracket comprising: positioning a numerical representation of an orthodontic archwire with respect to the dental arch final numerical representation, then for each tooth of the dental arch final numerical representation, positioning a second volume of a bracket blank comprising a first numerical representation of a volume representative of an envelope volume of a bracket body such that it interferes with the orthodontic archwire and in close proximity to the relevant tooth, and for each tooth of the dental arch final numerical representation, positioning a first volume of the bracket blank comprising a second numerical representation of a volume representative of an envelope volume of a bracket bonding pad such that it interferes with the second volume and with the volume of a relevant tooth, then determining, for each tooth in the first volume and in the second volume, volumetric exclusion zones which volumetric exclusion zones contain all of the volumes that interfere with the tooth for the first volume and all of the volumes that interfere with the orthodontic archwire for the second volume, wherein the numerical representation of the bracket of one tooth is determined by the volume of the bracket blank minus volumetric exclusion zones, wherein the volumetric exclusion zones of the first volume are defined in such a way as to determine a substantially constant thickness of the numerical representation of the bracket bonding pad; choosing the numerical representation of the bracket blank in relation to the shape of the relevant tooth so as to minimize the volume of the exclusion zones and wherein the numerical representations of the brackets are placed on lingual surfaces of the teeth of the dental arch final numerical representation; wherein for each tooth of the dental arch final numerical representation, the numerical representation of the second volume is positioned in such a way that a reference point of the second volume corresponds to a point of intersection between the numerical representation of the orthodontic archwire and an orthogonal projection of a center of the relevant tooth; and forming a three-dimensional representation of a dental arch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77922
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14658781', '15410250', '14743142', '13762994', '12937588']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8353552317782713
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6942958949124659
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8212492980916908
- Mean Citation Score: 682.028634
- Max Citation Score: 731.003
- Similarity Product: 669.2479191800356

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

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