PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908791
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["087", "009000"]

Abstract:
A protective textile sleeve having a flexible, tubular wall of braided yarns and method of construction thereof is provided. At least some of the yarns include plastically deformable and/or heat-settable monofilaments and/or multifilaments that are plastically deformed and/or heat-set to provide the wall with a convolute shape. The convolute shape is formed by a plurality of alternating crests and valleys, wherein the crests are formed in tight, axially compressed relation with one another, with the valleys intervening between the crests being relatively narrow or short in axially extending length relative to the crests, providing the wall with an increased density, an increased abrasion resistance, enhanced thermal protection, enhanced impact resistance, enhanced noise attenuation. Further, with the wall having an accordion-like shape, greatly enhanced flexibility is attained without concern of kinking when routing the sleeve about meandering paths and about sharp bends, corners and the like.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 11 , further including heat-setting or plastically deforming the wall so that the crests are tightly packed immediately adjacent one another with the intervening valleys having a relatively short axially extending length relative to the length of the individual crests, thereby providing the wall with a significantly increased linear density relative to the wall as initially braided and prior to being heat-set or plastically deformed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71277
- Patent Class: 87.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15348682', '14928107', '15337750', '14634216', '15337472']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7143550034390324
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5276961354108769
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6956891166362168
- Mean Citation Score: 285.5186300000001
- Max Citation Score: 331.72318
- Similarity Product: 163.2160145486289

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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