PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16264420
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["433", "006000"]

Abstract:
A dental appliance for positioning a patient's teeth includes a removable orthodontic tooth positioning appliance having teeth receiving cavities shaped to directly receive at least some of the patient's teeth and apply a resilient positioning force to the patient's teeth. The appliance includes a hard polymer layer having a hard polymer layer elastic modulus disposed between a first soft polymer layer having a first soft polymer layer elastic modulus and a second soft polymer layer having a second soft polymer layer elastic modulus. The hard polymer layer elastic modulus is greater than each of the first soft polymer layer elastic modulus and the second soft polymer layer elastic modulus. At least one of the first soft polymer layer and the second soft polymer layer has a flexural modulus of greater than about 35,000 psi.

Claim (Index 13):
A plurality of incremental position adjustment appliances having teeth receiving cavities shaped to directly receive at least some of a patient's teeth and apply a resilient positioning force to the patient's teeth, wherein the appliances are shaped to move teeth from one arrangement to a successive arrangement when successively worn by the patient, and wherein at least one of the appliances comprises:\n a soft polymer layer comprising a soft polymeric material having an ultimate tensile strength of greater than about 5000 psi, an elongation at break of greater than about 200%, and a hardness of about 60 A to about 85 D; and a hard polymer layer comprising a co-polyester.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71154
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13470681', '15476622', '15132171', '16211176', '11757299']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7239824532724507
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5802995108006068
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7096141590252664
- Mean Citation Score: 372.770358
- Max Citation Score: 454.23245
- Similarity Product: 398.1610634717285

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

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