PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16350421
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["473", "241000"]

Abstract:
A sporting equipment alignment device, including a golf club, incorporating a head, shaft; and handle or grip, has an alignment device affixed to the upper end of the club grip. It includes a magnet that is applied to the top of the club, a steel disc that is magnetically held to the magnet, the steel disc connecting with a leveling device, that includes an air bubble, and an upper cap that provides an indicator mark, that can be used to align the golf head for either a straight, fade, or draw shot, when undertaken a drive of the golf ball. Aligning the indicator mark, relative to the air bubble of the level, provides for the selective application of a setting for these types of golf shots. The golf club grip may include a GPS tracking censor, and an accelerometer, for determining the distance to parts of the green, the distance a ball has traveled after a hit, and whether the club head displayed an open face angle, or a closed face angle, that may determine whether a “fade” or “draw” occurred during the hit of the golf ball. The sporting equipment may include a golf club, as noted, a tennis racquet, and a baseball bat.

Claim (Index 9):
A sporting instrument alignment device, comprising:\n a sporting instrument such as a golf club, a tennis racquet, and a baseball bat, an alignment device provided to the upper end of the instrument, the alignment device including circuitry, the circuitry including sensor inputs, electrically connected with a sensor interface, and which are electrically connected with a microcontroller, the microcontroller including a bridging unit, and electrically connected with a memory, for storage of calculated data, and the microcontroller operatively associated with a communications output for furnishing display of data either upon a digital display, expressed on a speaker, displayed on a projector, all of which are operatively associated with a transmitter for attaining transmission of the calculated data, and a battery power management unit operatively associated with the microcontroller to provide it with energization during usage, the data display during usage of the sporting instrument providing distance to that distance desired through usage of the sporting instrument, the positioning of the user indicating whatever change may be necessary in the user's position to attain the desired hit of the ball, and providing other data relating to the information needed by the athlete during performance in the sport of participation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35644
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14819741', '10821602', '13039699', '12737345', '13647590']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6485199427336303
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5152032059348679
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6351882690537541
- Mean Citation Score: 298.67778800000013
- Max Citation Score: 312.79208
- Similarity Product: 212.3818574419832

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

Dataset: test