PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16237694
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["070", "276000"]

Abstract:
A lock system and method for alerting a user or other entity that a lock has been or is being tampered with is disclosed. The lock includes at least one enhanced security pin that is electrically isolated from the rest of the lock. When the lock picker attempts to pick the lock a portion of the enhanced security pin contacts either the plug or the outer casing of the lock to complete a circuit with an alert component. The completion of the circuit causes the alert component to generate an alert signal that can be observed by the user or other entity.

Claim (Index 1):
A lock comprising:\n a plug, the plug having a keyway and a first plurality of shafts; an outer casing, the outer casing having a plug hole disposed in a center portion of the outer casing, the plug hole shaped to accept the plug into the outer casing, the outer casing further including a second plurality of shafts; a plurality of springs disposed within the second plurality of shafts, each of the second plurality of shafts having a single spring; a plurality of driver pins connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of springs, wherein at least one of the plurality of driver pins is an enhanced security pin, the enhanced security pin having a top portion and a bottom portion comprised of a non-conductive material and a center portion comprised of an electrically conductive material; a plurality of key pins connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of driver pins; and a first wire disposed within the enhanced security pin; a second wire disposed within the plug; an alert component connected to the first wire and the second wire such that when the center portion contacts a portion of either the plug or the outer casing an electrical circuit is completed between the first wire, the second wire and the alert component causing the alert component to generate an alert signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79661
- Patent Class: 70.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15414839', '15685934', '13195474', '12616698', '13195451']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7647688468233457
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4553479920879861
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7338267613498097
- Mean Citation Score: 285.36781
- Max Citation Score: 387.49408
- Similarity Product: 367.8284485344124

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