PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904810
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["433", "159000"]

Abstract:
A pair of dental pliers for use by a parent to extract a non-permanent tooth from a child's mouth. The dental pliers include a left leg and a right leg that are pivotally engaged with each other. Each of the left and right legs has a handle and a jaw. The handles are fabricated from a flexible material that flexes when too much force is applied thereto when moving the jaws to a closed position. The flexible handles thus limit the amount of force that may be applied to extract a tooth. The jaws include jaw tips that taper inwardly toward each other and angle downwardly from the handles. The jaw tips include angled interior surfaces that define a cupped region shaped to be able to contact a base of the tooth during the extraction process. The pliers are able to be cleaned and sanitized in a dishwasher after use.

Claim (Index 16):
A method using a pair of dental pliers comprising steps of:\n providing a pair of dental pliers having pivotable left and right legs each including a handle and a jaw; wherein the handles are fabricated from a flexible material; where each jaw includes a base comprising a first region and a second region, where the second region extends outwardly and forwardly from the first region; and an interior surface of the first region is oriented at a first angle relative to an interior surface of the second region; wherein the first region of the left leg and the first region of the right leg extend outwardly and forwardly from the pivot pin and angle outwardly away from each other; and the interior surfaces of the first and second regions of the base of the left leg are located opposite the interior surfaces of the first and second regions of the base of the right leg; and a jaw tip extends outwardly and downwardly at a second angle from the second region of each base. positioning the jaw tips of the jaws in a child's mouth on either side of a non-permanent tooth that is loosely retained in a soft tissue of the child's gums; positioning angled interior surfaces on the jaw tips adjacent a base of the non-permanent tooth; applying a force to the handles; moving the jaws toward each other; capturing the non-permanent tooth between the angled interior surfaces of the jaw tips; limiting an amount of force applied to the non-permanent tooth by the jaws; applying a pulling motion to the captured non-permanent tooth; and extracting the non-permanent tooth from the soft tissue.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91566
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13571784', '10306115', '10156465', '10893098', '13638242']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6839638941011514
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4800329425956342
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6635707989505997
- Mean Citation Score: 232.277224
- Max Citation Score: 249.91595
- Similarity Product: 204.5475311056108

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