PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891851
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["029", "243550"]

Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to fasteners for securing an object to produce a straight line cut of the secured object, including a square cut of a secured pipe. More particularly, the present invention relates to fasteners for securing objects of various sizes and/or shapes where the object may be in almost any location. The fastener has a gap to guide a saw blade to produce a straight-line cut of the secured object. In some instances, the fastener may retain both pieces of a cut workpiece in place after the workpiece is cut. In some instances, the fastener may prevent the saw blade from cutting beyond the fastener.

Claim (Index 1):
A fastener comprising:\n three or more fastening segments, wherein two of said fastening segments are engaging fastening segments and one of said engaging fastening segments includes, at an engaging end, an engaging feature of a first type and the other of said engaging fastening segments includes, at an engaging end, an engaging feature of a second type such that in an operative state of said fastening segments, engaging feature of said first type and engaging feature of said second type engage with each other, and wherein one or more fastening segments are non-engaging fastening segments and do not include an engaging feature; one or more hinges disposed on each of said fastening segments, wherein a non-engaging end of each engaging fastening segment includes at least one hinge and each end of said non-engaging fastening segments include at least one hinge; and at least two hinge mechanisms, at least one of which couples said hinge disposed at one end of said non-engaging fastening segments with said hinge disposed at said non-engaging end of one engaging fastening segment, and wherein at least another of said two hinge mechanisms couples said hinge disposed at another end of said non-engaging fastening segment with said hinge disposed at said non-engaging end of said another engaging fastening segment, or wherein at least another of said two hinge mechanisms couples a hinge at one end of another non-engaging fastening segment with said hinge disposed at said non-engaging end of said another engaging fastening segment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98305
- Patent Class: 29.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15181767', '14647821', '13800608', '10884704', '13477788']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.861274521058936
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4885030499500141
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8239973739480438
- Mean Citation Score: 170.291128
- Max Citation Score: 178.86983999999995
- Similarity Product: 116.64819193332193

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

Dataset: test