PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16198459
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["381", "380000"]

Abstract:
An earpiece including an intra-auricular support, a projection element coupled thereto, and a flexible body disposed thereon and inside an external ear canal of an ear, and a moldable earpiece material moldable about the intra-auricular support to conform to the auricle of an ear and curable to provide a fixed configuration of the earpiece.

Claim (Index 43):
A method in an earpiece, comprising:\n pressingly engaging a moldable earpiece material about said intra-auricular support; wherein said intra-auricular support includes:\n i) an outer surface opposite an inner surface each extending to an intra-auricular support peripheral edge; and \n ii) an intra-auricular support conduit disposed between said inner surface and said outer surface of said intra-auricular support, said intra-auricular support conduit extending a distance outward of said outer surface of said intra-auricular support, said intra-auricular support conduit having a support conduit internal surface which releasably retains an in-ear device, and \n wherein said moldable earpiece material moldably forms about said intra-auricular support or said intra-auricular support conduit; conforming said moldable earpiece material to said auricle of said ear; and curing said moldable earpiece material to provide a fixed configuration of said earpiece.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70588
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15411901', '15707953', '15485967', '13761947', '15251923']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7053570939994265
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6446869979037757
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6992900843898615
- Mean Citation Score: 361.193092
- Max Citation Score: 611.90216
- Similarity Product: 583.8039687348937

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