PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872226
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["029", "525010"]

Abstract:
A roof rack system for a vehicle that has roll bars that are selectively covered with a removable or retractable roof. A first mounting bar attaches to a first roll bar of the vehicle. The second mounting bar attaches to the second roll bar. An optional third mounting bar may be used. Both the first mounting bar and the second mounting bar are held within a gap space between the roll bars and the soft top roof. When the soft top roof is retracted, a plurality of mounting accessories can be selectively attached to both the first mounting bar and the second mounting bar. The mounting accessories can have different shapes.

Claim (Index 18):
In a vehicle having a removable roof system and at least one roll bar, a method of connecting a roof rack to said vehicle, said method comprising the steps of:\n providing a plurality of roll bars, wherein each of said role bars supports receptacles; providing mounting accessories, wherein each of said mounting accessories is configured to selectively engage any one of said receptacles; providing mechanical fasteners; attaching at least one of said plurality of roll bars to said at least one roll bar with said mechanical fasteners; connecting at least one of said mounting accessories to at least one of said receptacles.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16364
- Patent Class: 29.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14531742', '14849377', '14055685', '14927238', '14949300']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.868160437617777
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.479935499357672
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8293379437917665
- Mean Citation Score: 207.96759
- Max Citation Score: 215.73193
- Similarity Product: 168.25928788943588

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