PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16104046
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["211", "090010"]

Abstract:
A floating shelf apparatus that includes a mounting bracket and a shelf. The mounting bracket is coupled directly to a support surface such as a wall and the shelf is mounted to the support surface to hang the shelf from the support surface. The mounting bracket includes a first portion that is coupled to the wall, a second portion having an S-shape that extends from a first end of the first portion, and a third portion having a linear shape that extends from a second end of the first portion. The shelf includes a ledge portion upon which items may be supported and a mounting portion that facilitates mounting the shelf to the mounting bracket. The mounting portion has a mounting element that interacts with the second portion of the mounting bracket to mount the shelf to the mounting bracket.

Claim (Index 1):
A floating shelf apparatus comprising:\n a shelf comprising a ledge portion and a mounting portion, the mounting portion comprising a mounting element and a mounting cavity having an open rear end; a mounting bracket comprising:\n a first portion having a front surface and a rear surface opposite the front surface, the first portion extending from a first end to a second end along a longitudinal axis, wherein the first portion is configured to couple the mounting bracket to a wall with the rear surface of the first portion facing the wall; \n a second portion having a first leg that extends from the first end of the first portion in an upward direction that is oblique to the front surface of the first portion; and \n a third portion extending from the second end of the first portion in a downward direction that is oblique to the front surface of the first portion; and \n wherein the second and third portions of the mounting bracket are located within the mounting cavity of the mounting portion of the shelf and the mounting element of the mounting portion of the shelf interacts with the second portion of the mounting bracket to mount the shelf to the mounting bracket and hang the shelf from the wall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.88235
- Patent Class: 211.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13590716', '15086995', '10938104', '11949504', '12386147']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7532950586206408
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4799944321286507
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7259649959714418
- Mean Citation Score: 204.487802
- Max Citation Score: 208.3937
- Similarity Product: 159.44527470988038

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test