PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952902
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["312", "217000"]

Abstract:
A cabinet assembly includes a cabinet having a cabinet body and a door assembly pivotably coupled to the cabinet body. The door assembly includes a door body having an outer panel, a first and second panel, and an inner panel that define an interior door cavity. The inner panel includes a fixed panel and a snap-in cover panel. The cabinet assembly includes a locking assembly at least partially contained within the interior door cavity and having a first lock rod, a latch and a locking mechanism each coupled to the first lock rod. The locking mechanism configured to selectively lock and unlock the door assembly to the cabinet body when the door assembly is in a closed position. The latch is configured to engage the flange when the locking mechanism is in the locked position to prevent movement of the door assembly from the closed to open position.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for forming a cabinet assembly having a hidden locking assembly, said method comprising:\n providing a cabinet body comprising a back wall, a pair of opposing sidewalls coupled to the back wall, a top wall coupled to the back wall and each of the opposing sidewalls, and a bottom wall opposing the top wall and coupled to the back wall and each of the opposing sidewalls, wherein the back wall, the pair of opposing sidewalls, the top wall and the bottom wall define an interior volume of the cabinet assembly, the top wall including a flange extending outwardly toward the bottom wall along a longitudinal axis; pivotably coupling a door assembly to one of the pair of opposing sidewalls of the cabinet body, the door assembly moveable between an open position and a closed position and comprising a door body comprising an outer panel and an inner panel, the outer panel spaced from the inner panel to define an interior door cavity therebetween, the inner panel comprising a fixed panel coupled to the first side panel; providing a locking assembly comprising a first lock rod, a latch, and a locking mechanism; providing a locking assembly comprising a first lock rod, a second lock rod, a latch, and a locking mechanism; disposing the first lock rod and the second lock rod within the interior door cavity; coupling the locking mechanism to the first lock rod and to the second lock rod such that the locking mechanism is between the first lock rod and the second lock rod, said coupled locking mechanism moveable between a locked position and an unlocked position; installing a snap-in cover panel having an elongated slot between the fixed panel and the second side panel such that a portion of first lock rod extends through the elongated slot; coupling the latch to the first lock rod such that it extends outwardly from the outer surface of the inner panel and within the interior volume and such that it engages the flange when the locking mechanism is in the locked position to prevent movement of the door assembly from the closed position to the open position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80357
- Patent Class: 312.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11715079', '11270242', '11585069', '10224832', '11247359']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8113142508411633
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.483201741287842
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7785029998858312
- Mean Citation Score: 211.323596
- Max Citation Score: 243.40736
- Similarity Product: 198.2625860816956

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