PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897961
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["381", "315000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for transmitting vibrations via an electronic and/or transducer assembly through a tooth or teeth are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device. The electronic and transducer assembly may receive incoming sounds either directly or through a receiver to process and amplify the signals and transmit the processed sounds via a vibrating transducer element coupled to a tooth or other bone structure, such as the maxillary, mandibular, or palatine bone structure.

Claim (Index 1):
A bone conduction apparatus, comprising:\n a transducer in vibratory communication with at least one surface of at least one tooth, wherein said apparatus produces an interference fit between the apparatus and at least two surfaces of the at least one tooth.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6875
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14828372', '13551158', '11754823', '12333259', '14056821']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7781209088407608
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5319927960854238
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7535080975652272
- Mean Citation Score: 377.375126
- Max Citation Score: 377.37537
- Similarity Product: 336.1819045820975

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

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