PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16235469
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["604", "027000"]

Abstract:
A system and method to irrigate a user's auditory canal. A fluid can be dispensed from a reservoir through a fluid path and out through openings of a delivery element into the auditory canal. A pump may be used to facilitate the process of dispensing the fluid. The fluid can be delivered to the user's auditory canal for a predetermined period of time. Such a time period may be user selectable. The discharge from the irrigation is removed from the user's auditory canal via a discharge port located on the delivery element. The discharge exits the delivery element and proceeds to a discharge reservoir via a discharge path. A vacuum may be used to generate a negative pressure to facilitate the removal of the discharge from the auditory canal.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a support structure including a coupling element detachably coupleable to a delivery element and defining a cavity configured to receive an ear of a subject; a first reservoir coupleable to the support structure and configured to contain a first volume of fluid; a first channel configured to provide fluid communication between the first reservoir and the coupling element such that the first volume of fluid can be delivered from the first reservoir to the coupling element; a second reservoir coupleable to the support structure and configured to receive a second volume of fluid; and a second channel configured to provide fluid communication between the second reservoir and the coupling element such that the second volume of fluid can be received in the second reservoir from the coupling element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12970347', '14099059', '12272142', '14593217', '13913595']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7819987041207005
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4756255917559904
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7513613928842295
- Mean Citation Score: 202.22194
- Max Citation Score: 203.94278
- Similarity Product: 149.114082778728

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