PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904615
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["381", "325000"]

Abstract:
A hearing aid device comprising a microphone, a processing unit and a receiver for compensating for a hearing loss in the auditory system of a human is disclosed. The hearing aid device is configured with a microphone inlet assembly which is optimized with regards to maintenance of the hearing aid and improved sound performance. That is, the microphone inlet assembly comprises an inlet element attached to a PCB and further configured to connect with a sound inlet structure.

Claim (Index 1):
A hearing aid device comprising:\n at least one microphone structure configured for receiving an acoustic signal from an environment and to process said acoustic signal into an electrical signal; a processing unit configured for receiving said electrical signal and modifying said signal based on a hearing loss compensation; a receiver configured to receive said modified electrical signal and process said modified electrical signal into an acoustic signal, and further to transmit said acoustic signal to a part of the auditory system of a hearing impaired user; wherein the microphone structure comprises: a microphone having a microphone aperture arranged in a microphone housing structure; said hearing device further comprising a printed circuit board, wherein an inlet element is arranged on a first side of said printed circuit board and said microphone housing structure is arranged on a second side of said printed circuit board; said inlet element being configured to receive a sound inlet structure, said sound inlet structure being configured to provide an acoustic path from said environment to said microphone aperture.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80435
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15061154', '15868597', '15333762', '15409860', '09477700']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6983930228530032
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4931940581678491
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6778731263844878
- Mean Citation Score: 215.69615800000005
- Max Citation Score: 231.11766
- Similarity Product: 166.75069816686272

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

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