PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["248", "068100"]

Abstract:
A clamp assembly includes a first arm, a second arm, a hinge, and a fastening arrangement. The first arm and the second arm each include a hinge end, a free end, a web between the hinge end and the free end, a curved portion between the hinge end and the web, and a curved portion between the free end and the web. The hinge pivotably connects the hinge ends. The fastening arrangement is configured to connect the free ends when the clamp assembly is in a closed position. The curved portions are configured to encircle a first structure and a second structure when the clamp assembly is in the closed position.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of clamping axially aligned portions of a first structure and axially aligned portions of a second structure, the method comprising:\n separating a first free end of a first arm and a second free end of a second arm of a hinged clamp assembly to place the clamp assembly in an open position; positioning the first arm and the second arm of the clamp assembly in the open position around flanges of a first tube and a second tube of the first structure and around flanges of a third tube and a fourth tube of the second structure, the second structure being spaced from the first structure; joining the first free end and the second free end together such that a first curved portion of the first arm and a third curved portion of the second arm encircle the first structure and a second curved portion of the first arm and a fourth curved portion of the second arm encircle the second structure, placing the clamp assembly in a closed position, wherein the first curved portion, the second curved portion, the third curved portion, and the fourth curved portion each have a V-shaped cross-section, each V-shaped cross-section including angled sides and a flat bottom portion; and connecting the first free end to the second free end at a fastening arrangement.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.15385
- Patent Class: 248.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11992497', '14080347', '13659765', '12329915', '13063553']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8079139036039249
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4613665505924295
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7732591683027753
- Mean Citation Score: 151.316748
- Max Citation Score: 167.79927
- Similarity Product: 128.31416070339742

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

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