PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15954500
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["433", "006000"]

Abstract:
A sleep apnea oral appliance in which a pair of appliance trays are worn over respective orthodontic trays. The appliance trays are adjustable in order to allow them to be used with a series of orthodontic trays.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for accomplishing an orthodontic treatment while treating snoring and/or sleep apnea in a subject, comprising:\n applying a first orthodontic tray to maxillary dentition of a subject, wherein the first orthodontic tray has an anterior portion, a posterior portion, a right side, a left side, an inner surface, and an outer surface, wherein the inner surface contacts at least some of the subject's maxillary dentition; applying a second orthodontic tray to mandibular dentition of the subject, wherein the second orthodontic tray has an anterior portion, a posterior portion, a right side, a left side, an inner surface, and an outer surface, wherein the inner surface contacts at least some of the subject's mandibular dentition; applying a first appliance tray over the first orthodontic tray, the first appliance tray having an anterior portion, a posterior portion, a right side, a left side, a buccal side, a lingual side, an inner surface, and an outer surface, wherein a receptacle formed in the inner surface of the first appliance tray contacts and surrounds at least a portion of the outer surface of the first orthodontic appliance; and applying a second appliance tray over the second orthodontic tray, the first appliance tray having an anterior portion, a posterior portion, a right side, a left side, a buccal side, a lingual side, an inner surface, and an outer surface, wherein a receptacle formed in the inner surface of the second appliance tray contacts and surrounds at least a portion of the outer surface of the second orthodontic appliance, wherein the first appliance tray and second appliance tray cooperate to maintain the mandible of the subject in a relatively forward position during use, thereby treating snoring and/or sleep apnea in the subject.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.44444
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15323715', '11801994', '13468766', '11677198', '14536115']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6379871090941218
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5736828244484318
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6315566806295528
- Mean Citation Score: 289.606332
- Max Citation Score: 492.4111
- Similarity Product: 398.3455015194057

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

Dataset: test