PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927701
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["084", "299000"]

Abstract:
This invention relates generally to a stop bar for a stringed musical instrument. The field of the invention is stringed musical instruments. The purpose of the stop bar is to anchor a musical string to the sound board of the musical instrument in a manner that reduces breakage of musical strings of the instrument compared to conventional stop bars. The stop bar according to the invention arranged to attach to a sound board of a stringed musical instrument and to guide strings of the instrument, said strings are anchored to the stop bar at a first location and pass through guides formed in the stop bar so that a string defines a straight line from the first location to a saddle which separates the strings from the sound board.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of attaching musical strings to a stringed musical instrument having a sound board on which there is a saddle to support musical strings and a stop bar attached to the sound board distal from saddle, the stop bar comprising: an attachment device, anchor holders and straight guides non parallel to a flat side of the stop bar attachable to the sound board at a first position distal from the saddle to guide the musical strings from the anchor holders to the saddle in straight lines in view of the sound board profile, wherein the attachment device cooperates with a connector which the sound board comprises at the first position to attach the stop bar at the first position; including: threading each of the musical strings through each one of the straight guides respectively, drawing each of the strings over the saddle, and tensioning the strings to straight lines through the straight guides non parallel with respect to the profile of the sound board from the anchor holder to the saddle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35088
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10841155', '10341219', '12356051', '13565107', '13379057']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6054820733184053
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4945261407691402
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5943864800634788
- Mean Citation Score: 247.167084
- Max Citation Score: 272.74924
- Similarity Product: 216.4878292361545

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

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