PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15775459
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["280", "507000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a lockable tow hitch. The tow hitch comprises a housing having a generally hemispheral socket for receiving a tow ball, and a handle mountable on the housing. The handle has having a rod member slidably projecting into the housing and arranged for moving a locking element within the housing between an engaged position at which it holds the tow ball within the socket and a disengaged position where the tow ball is free to move into and out of the socket. The tow hitch further comprises a catch member movable between a holding position wherein it secures the handle against sliding and an open position where the handle is free to slide, and a lock arranged to lock the locking element in the engaged position when the lock is locked, and to free the locking element for moving to the disengaged position when the lock is unlocked.

Claim (Index 8):
The tow hitch according to  claim 1  wherein the socket is located in a forward end of the housing and the lock is located at the forward end between the socket and the handle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43077
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11227048', '11624965', '11933489', '10908514', '10624323']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8463855099141375
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4930667576798029
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8110536346907041
- Mean Citation Score: 231.731546
- Max Citation Score: 240.58568
- Similarity Product: 180.274005563488

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