PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16264420
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["433", "006000"]

Abstract:
A dental appliance for positioning a patient's teeth includes a removable orthodontic tooth positioning appliance having teeth receiving cavities shaped to directly receive at least some of the patient's teeth and apply a resilient positioning force to the patient's teeth. The appliance includes a hard polymer layer having a hard polymer layer elastic modulus disposed between a first soft polymer layer having a first soft polymer layer elastic modulus and a second soft polymer layer having a second soft polymer layer elastic modulus. The hard polymer layer elastic modulus is greater than each of the first soft polymer layer elastic modulus and the second soft polymer layer elastic modulus. At least one of the first soft polymer layer and the second soft polymer layer has a flexural modulus of greater than about 35,000 psi.

Claim (Index 6):
The multilayer dental appliance of  claim 1 , wherein the soft polymeric material comprises a material selected from the group consisting of: a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer, a silicone rubber, an elastomeric alloy, a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), a thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) elastomer, a block copolymer elastomer, a polyolefin blend elastomer, a thermoplastic co-polyester elastomer, and a thermoplastic polyamide elastomer, or a combination thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71154
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13470681', '15476622', '15132171', '16211176', '11757299']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7737460430218219
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5789298667759718
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.754264425397237
- Mean Citation Score: 372.770358
- Max Citation Score: 454.23245
- Similarity Product: 392.1046095065623

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

Dataset: test