PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16139069
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["381", "322000"]

Abstract:
Described is a human-ear-wearable apparatus having a housing, which contains electronic and auditory components for conveying sound into a human hear. An inflatable mounting system is configured to secure the housing to the human ear. The mounting system includes an elastomeric bladder configured to inflate into a customizable counterpart shape of portions of the user's Concha and Meatus areas of a particular user's ear. A pump, coupled to the housing, is configured to pass air through an opening in the housing to the elastomeric bladder. Inflation of the bladder, via the pump, is controllable by a user to form a customized fit of the mounting system's bladder to the Concha and Meatus areas of the user's ear. One or more speakers may be encased in the elastomeric bladder. For example, a dual-hybrid speaker arrangement is described with a cone speaker and a balanced-armature driver embedded in the bladder.

Claim (Index 2):
The human-ear-wearable apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the housing includes a proximal-side cover configured to rest against the external human ear; and wherein the elastomeric bladder, is disposed at least partially in the housing, wherein the elastomeric bladder has outer walls configured to form:\n (a) a finger-like projectile that extends through an opening in the proximal-side cover in response to air pumped into the bladder, wherein air pumped into the bladder expands the finger-like projectile longitudinally along a length of the finger-like projectile and laterally across a width of the finger-like projectile thereby increasing the length and width of the finger-like projectile to an inflated configuration, wherein when the proximal-side cover is positioned against the human ear, and the bladder inflates in response to air pumped into the bladder, the bladder transitions from a deflated configuration to an inflated configuration, and the finger-like projectile extends lengthwise into the auditory meatus of the human ear, and also expands diametrically toward the walls of the ear canal to apply an expansive force against the walls of the ear canal; and (b) an arc-shaped outer wall that extends through an opening in the cover, and expands radially in a generally opposite direction of the finger-like projectile when the bladder is inflated with air, wherein the arc-shaped outer wall is configured to align with a posterior-auricular-sulcus area of the human ear, wherein when the proximal-side cover is positioned against the human ear, and the bladder inflates in response to air pumped into the bladder, the bladder transitions from a deflated configuration to an inflated configuration, and the arc-shaped outer wall expands to apply a force against a posterior-auricular-sulcus area of the human ear.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0625
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15491334', '15491365', '12178236', '13724296', '15987937']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7327325540656237
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6136341278298799
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7208227114420492
- Mean Citation Score: 323.3787240000001
- Max Citation Score: 550.17633
- Similarity Product: 513.4996482186341

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

Dataset: test