PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16120203
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["381", "023100"]

Abstract:
A binaural hearing system includes a binaural pair of microphones that are configured to be located, respectively, at a first ear and a second ear of a user. The system further includes an interconnected binaural pair of sound processors that are associated with the binaural pair of microphones. The binaural pair of sound processors are configured to preserve, to a partial degree for each of the first and second ears of the user, an interaural level difference (“ILD”) between a first signal generated by the first microphone and a second signal generated by the second microphone. The sound processors do this by performing a contralateral gain synchronization operation to a first partial degree with respect to the first and second signals at the first sound processor, and to a second partial degree with respect to the first and second signals at the second sound processor.

Claim (Index 15):
A cochlear implant system comprising:\n a binaural pair of cochlear implants including\n a first cochlear implant implanted within a user and associated with a first ear of the user, and \n a second cochlear implant implanted within the user and associated with a second ear of the user; \n a binaural pair of microphones including\n a first microphone that generates a first signal representative of an audio signal presented to the user as the audio signal is detected by the first microphone at the first ear, and \n a second microphone that generates a second signal representative of the audio signal as the audio signal is detected by the second microphone at the second ear; \n a binaural pair of sound processors including\n a first sound processor associated with the first ear and coupled directly to the first microphone, the first sound processor communicatively coupled with the first cochlear implant, and \n a second sound processor associated with the second ear and coupled directly to the second microphone, the second sound processor communicatively coupled with the second cochlear implant; and \n a communication link interconnecting the binaural pair of sound processors and configured to enable transmission of the first and second signals between the first and second sound processors; wherein the binaural pair of sound processors is configured to preserve, to a partial degree for each of the first and second ears of the user, an interaural level difference (\u201cILD\u201d) between the first and second signals by performing a contralateral gain synchronization operation\n to a first partial degree with respect to the first and second signals at the first sound processor, and \n to a second partial degree with respect to the first and second signals at the second sound processor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54839
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15908776', '16327823', '15741217', '15946022', '13901922']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7024377676417344
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6120023117179214
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6933942220493532
- Mean Citation Score: 391.49304
- Max Citation Score: 557.42267
- Similarity Product: 486.14003647966456

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

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