PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16003297
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "056000"]

Abstract:
A hearing protection device configured to measure the noise exposure of a user and to provide a time remaining estimate until a maximum noise exposure level is achieved. Generally, the hearing protection device may comprise a sound sealing section, a microphone configured to generate a detected sound signal indicative of the measured sound level at the user's ear canal, a memory/storage configured to record the detected sound signal as sound exposure history, a timer configured to measure the amount of time the hearing protection device is exposed to sound, and a processor configured to receive a timer signal from the timer and the detected sound signal to calculate a time remaining estimate until reaching the maximum noise exposure level. Additionally, the maximum noise exposure level may be based on industry regulations or personalized hearing thresholds.

Claim (Index 1):
A hearing protection device comprising:\n a sound sealing section configured to attenuate external noise from reaching a user's ear canal; at least one microphone configured to generate a detected sound signal indicative of measured sound at the user's ear canal; a memory configured to record the detected sound signal as sound exposure history; a timer configured to measure the amount of time the hearing protection device is exposed to sound; a processor configured to receive one or more of a timer signal from the timer, the detected sound signal from the microphone, and the sound exposure history from the memory, and, in response, to calculate a time remaining estimate and generate an output signal to an output device regarding the time remaining estimate; and an output device configured to receive the output signal from the processor and to generate an output notice to the user indicative of the time remaining estimate in response to the output signal from the processor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33871
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13488949', '10564860', '15915734', '15863027', '15263907']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6301268675107254
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4839466496824673
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6155088457278997
- Mean Citation Score: 173.036112
- Max Citation Score: 180.18172
- Similarity Product: 132.84604518395187

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

Dataset: test