PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029519
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["030", "148000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a mechanical eating utensil which combines the capabilities of a fork, characterized by function for spearing the food and of a knife characterized by function for cutting the food and can be used by handicapped and people with decreased functional ability of one of their upper limbs. The eating utensil consists of a handle and an instrument end with one or more rotating cutting tines.

Claim (Index 1):
A mechanical eating utensil comprising:\n a handle including a mechanism and a drive surface for the user to operate said mechanism of said mechanical eating utensil; an instrument end including at least one kinematic tine wherein said kinematic tine includes at least one cutting edge; single-handed means for said user to hold and control the functional characteristics of said mechanical eating utensil and by means of said drive surface to operate the mechanism which disposes said cutting edge of said kinematic tine of said mechanical eating utensil from a protected position to an exposed position and vice versa.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53191
- Patent Class: 30.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11369709', '14905958', '15870915', '13457989', '15377157']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8144489148159678
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4744872215057196
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.780452745484943
- Mean Citation Score: 171.042228
- Max Citation Score: 182.1023
- Similarity Product: 122.39802324899436

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

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