PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16131943
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["174", "066000"]

Abstract:
A mounting bracket for a junction box includes a face plate having left and right edge margins and a central opening. The face plate includes a first set of indicia adjacent a top edge of the central opening and a second set of indicia adjacent a bottom edge of the central opening. Each set of indicia includes ruler graduations indicating a distance from the left edge margin of the face plate to the respective ruler graduation.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17 , further comprising providing a mounting bracket comprising:\n a face plate having opposite upper and lower edge margins, opposite left and right edge margins, and a central opening; an upper channel extending upwardly from the upper edge margin; a lower channel extending downwardly from the lower edge margin, each of the upper and lower channels including an enlarged end portion at one end thereof, each enlarged end portion having a width greater than a width of the remainder of the respective channel such that the enlarged end portion is configured to receive a portion of the remainder of the respective channel; cutting the mounting bracket at a first cutting location to remove an end portion of the mounting bracket including the enlarged end portions of each of the upper and lower channels; cutting the mounting bracket at a second cutting location; discarding a portion of the mounting bracket between the first and second cutting locations; aligning the end portion of the mounting bracket with the remainder of the mounting bracket such that each enlarged end portion receives a portion of one of the upper and lower channels; and attaching the end portion to the remainder of the mounting bracket to create a mounting bracket having a length shorter than an initial length of the mounting bracket.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02564
- Patent Class: 174.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14733379', '15456000', '14811278', '15262960', '14701039']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8458837465006283
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5683107238576879
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8181264442363342
- Mean Citation Score: 303.94089
- Max Citation Score: 483.75522
- Similarity Product: 383.4025772443592

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