PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16401857
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["381", "073100"]

Abstract:
A hearing instrument and a method for operating a hearing instrument is provided. The hearing instrument and/or the method includes receiving and manipulating an audio signal at a signal processor to create a manipulated audio signal, providing a tinnitus relief sound having an operational level based on a present volume level from an audio signal, and generating an output signal based on the manipulated audio signal and the tinnitus relief sound.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for controlling a hearing instrument configured for being worn by a wearer, the hearing instrument configured for relieving tinnitus, hyperacusis, and/or hearing loss, wherein the hearing instrument includes a tinnitus relief sound generator, the hearing instrument being in communication with an external device comprising a user interface, the method comprising:\n presenting to the wearer, via the user interface, one or more questions relating to the present state of the wearer's tinnitus, adapting the tinnitus relief sound generator based on the wearer's answers to the one or more questions, receiving and manipulating an audio signal at a signal processor to create a manipulated audio signal; providing a tinnitus relief sound via the tinnitus relief sound generator, generating an output signal based on the manipulated audio signal and the tinnitus relief sound, providing the output signal to an output transducer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.875
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15049988', '15849272', '12382155', '10682894', '12926274']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7372811600973906
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5314713079861513
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7167001748862667
- Mean Citation Score: 296.105278
- Max Citation Score: 369.90704
- Similarity Product: 317.3358721546268

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

Dataset: test