PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16377928
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["601", "009000"]

Abstract:
A method for external ear canal pressure regulation to alleviate one or more symptoms associated with a disorder or treat one or more disorders, the method including providing a fluid transfer device which generates a fluid flow of a fluid through an earplug, the earplug having an earplug external surface configured to sealably engage an external ear canal wall as a barrier between an external ear canal pressure and an ambient pressure; sealably engaging the earplug of the fluid transfer device with the external ear canal wall as the barrier between the external ear canal pressure and the ambient pressure; and operating the fluid transfer device to generate the fluid flow of the fluid through the earplug to achieve an external ear canal pressure differential between the external ear canal pressure and the ambient pressure effective to alleviate a disorder symptom or treat a disorder.

Claim (Index 21):
A method for alleviating at least one symptom associated with a headache being experienced by a patient having first and second ears on respective first and second sides of the patient's head, the method comprising:\n engaging the first ear on the first side of the patient's head with an earpiece sufficiently to allow a first pressure in a first external ear canal of the first ear to be adjusted; controlling a flow of fluid through the earpiece to make at least one pressure adjustment to the first pressure to create at least one respective pressure differential between the first pressure in the first external ear canal of the first ear and an ambient pressure outside the first external ear canal of the first ear; and performing at least one of:\n (a) choosing the first ear on the first side for the at least one pressure adjustment based upon a relative distribution of headache pain between the first and second sides of the patient's head, \n (b) making at least one other pressure adjustment to a second pressure in a second external ear canal of the second ear to create at least one respective other pressure differential between the second pressure and the ambient pressure, and \n (c) monitoring a headache response to the at least one pressure adjustment, and based on the monitored headache response, making at least one additional pressure adjustment in the first or second external ear canal to create at least one respective additional pressure differential between the respective first or second pressure and the ambient pressure; and \n wherein the at least one pressure adjustment in combination with at least one of actions (a), (b), and (c) causes a therapeutic physiological response to alleviate the at least one symptom associated with the headache.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 85.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77778
- Patent Class: 601.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14292469', '14316668', '14702428', '15691668', '14936332']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6573422037282983
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5823892651998059
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6498469098754491
- Mean Citation Score: 394.109764
- Max Citation Score: 509.904
- Similarity Product: 427.4835792331696

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

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