PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16144181
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["433", "011000"]

Abstract:
A self-ligating bracket includes a bracket body with a mesial and a distal channel. A spring clip includes a distal arm with a distal arm body and a distal finger and a mesial arm with a mesial arm body and a mesial finger. The spring clip is slidably secured within the bracket body by a sliding engagement of the distal arm with the distal channel and the mesial arm with the mesial channel. The spring clip is movable between an open position and a closed position wherein in the open position, the arch wire slot is unobstructed and in the closed position the mesial finger and distal finger extend into and across the arch wire slot to occlude the arch wire slot.

Claim (Index 31):
The self-ligating bracket of  claim 30 , wherein the distal arm and the mesial arm are slidably received within respective channels of the bracket body and the bracket body further comprises stop projections that extend into the respective channels, wherein engagement between the distal projection and the mesial projection with the respective stop projections deforms the distal arm and the mesial arm in the mesial-distal direction as the spring clip moves between the open and closed positions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.88636
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15263511', '14212616', '15176777', '14938515', '10836074']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.761398968508771
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.58317705605183
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7435767772630769
- Mean Citation Score: 481.817548
- Max Citation Score: 546.2725
- Similarity Product: 409.5095988169312

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

Dataset: test