PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059898
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["473", "340000"]

Abstract:
A resilient face insert for a golf club head, preferably a putter head, is disclosed herein. In particular, the face insert comprises a plurality of hinge features spaced from a striking surface to ensure consistent ball speed across the striking surface. At least a portion of each hinge feature extends parallel to the striking surface without making contact with the striking surface. In the preferred embodiment, each hinge feature comprises a tab portion that is spaced from the striking surface by a stem portion and that extends parallel to the striking surface. The hinge features may be co-molded with a polymeric backing material having a plurality of parallel grooves in order to further improve performance of the face insert.

Claim (Index 13):
A putter comprising:\n a body comprising a top portion, a sole portion, a toe side, a heel side, a rear side, and a face side with a recess; and a face insert comprising a striking plate having a first average thickness and a backing portion having a second average thickness, wherein the face insert is disposed within the recess so that at least a portion of the striking plate is exposed, wherein a horizontal y-axis extends in a heel side to toe side direction parallel with the face side, a vertical z-axis extends perpendicular to the y-axis from the sole portion to the top portion, and a horizontal x-axis extends perpendicular to both the y- and z-axes from the face side to the rear side, wherein the striking plate comprises a base portion, a first set of hinge features disposed at a middle section of the striking plate, a second set of hinge features disposed at a heel side of the striking plate, and third set of hinge features disposed at a toe side of the striking plate, wherein the first set of hinge features comprises a plurality of first hinge features, each extending towards the sole portion parallel with the z-axis, wherein the second set of hinge features comprises a plurality of second hinge features, each extending away from the middle section at a first angle of no less than 10\u00b0 and no more than 75\u00b0 with respect to the y-axis, wherein the third set of hinge features comprises a plurality of third hinge features, each extending away from the middle section at a second angle of no less than 10\u00b0 and no more than 75\u00b0 with respect to the y-axis, wherein each of the hinge features of the first, second, and third pluralities of hinge features comprises a stem portion that extends from the base portion at a stem angle of no more than 90 degrees with respect to the base portion, and a tab portion that is spaced from the base portion by the stem portion and extends from the stem portion approximately parallel with the base portion without making contact with the base portion, and wherein each tab portion is at least partially disposed over a through-hole extending through the striking plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93939
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15796431', '15706761', '15189774', '14921853', '15639138']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6434052183491585
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5594170171394035
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.635006398228183
- Mean Citation Score: 364.265888
- Max Citation Score: 455.52414000000016
- Similarity Product: 328.01744208061336

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