PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15993127
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["012", "141000"]

Abstract:
A last assembly includes a plurality of retractable pins and a plurality of vacuum holes, both acting to hold footwear segments to the last assembly to facilitate manufacturing of, or modification to, an article of footwear. A method of making or modifying an article of footwear includes placing footwear segments on the last assembly by associating an extension portion of at least one footwear segment with the retractable pins, modifying the footwear segments and then removing the extension portion.

Claim (Index 1):
A last assembly, comprising:\n a last member configured to support one or more footwear segments during manufacture of a shoe upper; and a base member connected to a bottom portion of the last member to support the last member, the base member including a plurality of vacuum holes, wherein the base member has a bottom and extends upward from the bottom to a top connected to the bottom portion of the last member, and wherein the base member has an outer peripheral edge located below the top of the base member, and a width of the base member is greater at the outer peripheral edge than the top.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97674
- Patent Class: 12.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15142146', '13767011', '15142105', '13773771', '13868130']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6521384258437581
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5017912499176166
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.637103708251144
- Mean Citation Score: 243.07379
- Max Citation Score: 280.73254
- Similarity Product: 232.6813593377304

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