PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16138267
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["601", "006000"]

Abstract:
A lip-enhancement device can include a vacuum pump, a controller configured to control the vacuum pump, a pump housing structured to enclose the vacuum pump and the controller, and a mouthpiece reversibly and rigidly mountable to the pump housing. The mouthpiece can include a pump-housing-engaging side structured to reversibly mount to the pump housing on a mouthpiece-receiving side of the pump housing, and a lips-engaging side having a generally oval rim with a thermoplastic elastomer outer layer. The generally oval rim can bound a bowl, and the bowl can include a suction port providing fluidic communication between an interior of the bowl and an exterior of the bowl on the pump-housing-engaging side. The mouthpiece-receiving side of pump housing can include a suction connector structured to fluidically couple the suction port of the mouthpiece with the vacuum pump when the mouthpiece is mounted to the pump housing.

Claim (Index 27):
A method for enhancing lips, comprising:\n positioning a lip-enhancement device to a user's lips, the lip-enhancement device including:\n a vacuum pump; \n a controller configured to control the vacuum pump; \n a pump housing structured to enclose the vacuum pump and the controller; and \n a mouthpiece removably and rigidly mountable to the pump housing, the mouthpiece including:\n a pump-housing-engaging side structured to releasably mount to the pump housing on a mouthpiece-receiving side of the pump housing; \n a lips-engaging side having a generally round rim with an elastomer outer surface, the generally round rim bounding a bowl, the bowl including a suction port providing fluidic communication between an interior of the bowl and an exterior of the bowl on the pump-housing-engaging side; and \n \n a releasable porous pad, wherein the releasable porous pad and the bowl are correspondingly dimensioned such that the releasable porous pad is releasably retained in the bowl of the mouthpiece via a friction fit, \n wherein the mouthpiece-receiving side of pump housing includes a suction connector structured to fluidically couple the suction port of the mouthpiece with the vacuum pump when the mouthpiece is mounted to the pump housing, and \n further wherein the releasable porous pad is configured to prevent substantially complete fluidic sealing of at least one of the suction port of the bowl of the mouthpiece and the suction connector of the pump housing by a lip of the user, \n wherein positioning the lip-enhancement device to the user's lips includes positioning at least a majority of an upper vermillion and a lower vermillion of the user's lips in the bowl of the mouthpiece; \n activating the vacuum pump of the lip-enhancement device, the vacuum pump drawing fluid from the bowl of the mouthpiece to produce a vacuum therein; the controller of the lip-enhancement device deactivating the vacuum pump after a predetermined time interval; and optionally re-activating the vacuum pump of the lip-enhancement device for an additional predetermined time interval.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7193
- Patent Class: 601.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15524039', '15413288', '12579875', '14424394', '13586758']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5985584138933826
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5794674232724906
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5966493148312935
- Mean Citation Score: 233.408276
- Max Citation Score: 475.2435
- Similarity Product: 445.9751148477495

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