PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16297848
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["264", "045100"]

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a midsole for an article of footwear includes placing first and second preforms in a first mold, closing and heating the first mold to produce a midsole preform with a peripheral preform flange, removing the midsole preform from the first mold and allowing it to further expand and cool, placing the midsole preform in a second mold, with a volume of a midsole recess of the second mold being less than a volume of the midsole preform, and a volume of a peripheral recess of the second mold being less than a volume of the peripheral preform flange, closing the second mold thereby compressing the midsole preform and the peripheral preform flange, and heating the second mold to form a midsole with a peripheral flange, allowing the second mold to cool, opening the second mold, and cutting away a peripheral flange of the midsole.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of manufacturing a molded foam article for a midsole of an article of footwear, the method comprising:\n filling a mold by placing a first preform having a first volume in a recess in a mold, the mold having a mold recess and a peripheral overflow chamber, wherein the mold recess includes a forefoot mold region, a midfoot mold region, a heel mold region, and a peripheral edge extending continuously along the medial and lateral sides of the mold recess, connecting the forefoot mold region, the midfoot mold region, and the heel mold region, and wherein the peripheral overflow chamber extends continuously around the peripheral edge of the mold recess; closing the filled mold; molding the first preform by heating the first preform in the closed mold for a period of time and at a temperature such that the first preform expands into and fills the peripheral overflow chamber, forming a molded foam article having a first portion and a peripheral flange portion; allowing the molded foam article to cool; and removing the cooled molded foam article from the mold recess.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.38298
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15353903', '13833140', '14812479', '13206899', '12552778']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8068842990656835
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.537650905212508
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7799609596803659
- Mean Citation Score: 313.59989
- Max Citation Score: 379.66306
- Similarity Product: 303.96202206005813

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

Dataset: test