PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16013839
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["381", "328000"]

Abstract:
An output transducer is coupled to a support structure, and the support structure configured to contact one or more of the tympanic membrane, an ossicle, the oval window or the round window. An input transducer is configured for placement near an ear canal opening to receive high frequency localization cues. A sound inhibiting structure, such as an acoustic resistor or a screen, may be positioned at a location along the ear canal between the tympanic membrane and the input transducer to inhibit feedback. A channel can be coupled to the sound or feedback inhibiting structure to provide a desired frequency response profile of the sound or feedback inhibiting structure.

Claim (Index 1):
A hearing apparatus for placement in an ear of a user, the ear having an ear canal, an opening to the ear canal, and a tympanic membrane, the apparatus comprising:\n an input transducer to receive ambient sound; a support for placement in the ear canal, the support providing a channel to transmit sound when placed in the ear canal; an output transducer assembly comprising a vibratory structure to contact a vibratory component of the ear; a sound inhibiting structure configured to provide a predetermined amount of sound attenuation and comprising one or more openings coupled to the channel to decrease sound transmission, the sound inhibiting structure positioned between the vibratory structure and the input transducer, wherein the sound inhibiting structure transmits user audible high frequency localization cues toward the tympanic membrane; and a user removable component, the user removable component comprising the input transducer and the sound inhibiting structure, wherein the output transducer remains in contact with the vibratory structure when the user removable component is placed outside the ear canal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93443
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14661832', '15180719', '12794969', '13919079', '12684073']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7425082505249948
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5787045460119534
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7261278800736907
- Mean Citation Score: 370.950232
- Max Citation Score: 475.8816
- Similarity Product: 453.0125740402221

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