PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872278
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["124", "052000"]

Abstract:
A magazine for a projectile launcher is provided. The magazine has a housing having a cavity to retain a plurality of frangible projectiles, a follower and spring to engage and push the projectiles through the cavity, and feed lips extending from the housing. The magazine also has an opening to allow a projectile to be ejected from the housing and to remain engaged by the feed lips when the magazine is connected to the launcher. When the magazine is connected to the launcher the feed lips engage the barrel of the launcher and the projectile is placed in the barrel breach but the projectile remains associated with the feed lips. However, upon removal of the magazine from the launcher the projectile that was in the barrel breach remains with the magazine.

Claim (Index 1):
A magazine for a projectile launcher having a barrel with a breach, the magazine comprising:\n a housing having a cavity to retain a plurality of frangible projectiles; a projectile path in the cavity of the housing; a follower and spring to engage the projectile and push the projectiles through the projectile path; feed lips extending from the housing, the feed lips having a first recess and a second recess; and, an opening in the housing to allow a projectile to be ejected from the housing and to remain retained by the feed lips, wherein when the magazine is not connected to the launcher the projectile is retained in the first recess of the feed lips, and wherein when the magazine is connected to the launcher the feed lips engage the barrel and the projectile is placed in the barrel breach, but the projectile remains adjacent the second recess in the feed lips and ready for launching, and wherein upon removal of the magazine from the launcher the projectile that was in the barrel breach transitions to the first recess and remains with the magazine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4386
- Patent Class: 124.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14630640', '15872687', '15451669', '14204336', '12939785']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7358459622982377
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5194500345276002
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.714206369521174
- Mean Citation Score: 330.652912
- Max Citation Score: 376.31033
- Similarity Product: 263.5906764941645

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

Dataset: test