PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16017441
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["381", "326000"]

Abstract:
A bone conduction hearing aid system includes a hearing aid housing with a hearing aid vibrator. A skin interface has an interface connector offset on an outer interface surface and detachably connected to a housing connector. A skin adhesive connects to the skin of a patient user to transmit the sound vibrations through the skin to underlying skull bone for transmission by bone conduction to a hearing organ of the user. When the skin adhesive is pressed against the skin of the user, the skin is initially engaged during an initial engagement period with an initial adhesive force that promotes removal and relocation of the skin interface, and the skin is fully engaged after the initial engagement period with a full adhesive force greater than the initial adhesive force that promotes a fixed secure connection that resists removal of the skin interface.

Claim (Index 1):
A bone conduction hearing aid system comprising:\n a hearing aid housing containing:\n i. a hearing aid vibrator configured for generating sound vibrations, and \n ii. a housing connector configured for coupling out the sound vibrations from the hearing aid vibrator; and \n a skin interface having:\n i. opposing inner and outer interface surfaces, each having a front end and a rear end, wherein the front end is configured to be closer to an auricle of the ear of a patient user when the skin interface is attached to the patient user, \n ii. an interface connector located on the outer interface surface closer to the rear end than to the front end and detachably connected to the housing connector to couple in the sound vibrations, and \n iii. a skin adhesive located on the inner interface surface and configured to adhesively connect to skin of the patient user to transmit the sound vibrations through the skin to underlying skull bone for transmission by bone conduction to a hearing organ of the user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24242
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15018911', '15057174', '14535259', '11306555', '15298904']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7260503014276289
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6092106757924404
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7143663388641102
- Mean Citation Score: 364.869742
- Max Citation Score: 533.7182
- Similarity Product: 521.8029204180718

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