PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16057406
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["473", "346000"]

Abstract:
A golf club head is described having a body defining an interior cavity and comprising a heel portion, a toe portion, and a sole portion positioned at a bottom portion of the golf club head, and a crown positioned at a top portion. The body has a forward portion and a rearward portion. A face is positioned at the forward portion of the body. The face has a center face location and includes a center face characteristic time. An off-center location on the face is located at about −40 mm in a heel direction away from the center face location. The off-center location has an off-center characteristic time of at least 80% of the center face characteristic time.

Claim (Index 10):
A golf club head having a more consistent trajectory and distance on impact comprising:\n a heel portion; a toe portion; a crown; a sole; and a face having a striking surface for striking a golf ball, the face having an ideal impact location at a center of the striking surface defining the origin of a coordinate system including a horizontal axis that extends substantially parallel to the face and generally parallel to the ground when the head is in an address position, with the negative direction of the horizontal axis pointing toward the heel portion and the positive direction of the horizontal axis pointing toward the toe portion, the face further having a first off-center location on the face located in a toe direction away from the center of the striking surface at 10 mm along the horizontal axis and a second off-center location on the face located in a toe direction away from the center of the striking surface at 40 mm along the horizontal axis, wherein a characteristic time at 10 mm increment locations on the face along the horizontal axis between the first off-center location and the second off-center location deviates from the characteristic time at the center of the striking surface by no more than 20%, wherein one or more ribs are positioned behind the face and extend across at least one of a crown-to-face transition and a sole-to-face transition to alter the stiffness of the striking surface thereby adjusting the characteristic time at various locations along the horizontal axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46154
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14862438', '12589804', '15980552', '15177586', '13975106']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7211528637566842
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5962726204640844
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7086648394274242
- Mean Citation Score: 427.11669599999993
- Max Citation Score: 519.3915400000002
- Similarity Product: 503.87488268751406

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