PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16001621
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["280", "163000"]

Abstract:
A motor vehicle side step has a running board with a slot in its back side through which bolts extend to clamp an insert and a base of a vehicle mounting bracket to the running board. A tubular top frame extends around the outer side of top step plate and has opposing ends fastened to the running board with the top step plate fastened to the running board and top frame member to form a top step. A second step support frame has two connector plates that bolt to a bottom side of the running board through slots in that bottom side. The second step support frame extends outward and downward from the connector plates to provide a lower support to which a lower step plate is fastened to form a lower step. A top step support extends upward from the second step support frame and connects to the bottom of the top step plate.

Claim (Index 11):
The side step of  claim 7 , further comprising:\n a lower step support frame having first and second connector plates each having both first and second fastener holes therethrough located to align with respective first and second rows of bottom slots, the connector plates being orientated to connect to the bottom side of the running board during use, with different ones of a third plurality of threaded fasteners passing through the first and second rows of bottom slots and first and second fastener holes in the first and second connector plates to fasten the connector plates to the bottom side of the running board; a lower step support frame having a first and second proximal ends connected to the first and second connector plates, respectively, each proximal end connected to an opposing end of a bottom step support located a predetermined distance outward from the and below the connector plates during use; a lower step plate having opposing first and second sides with the first side connected to a first, upper portion of the lower step support and the second side connected to a second, lower portion of the lower step support; first and second top step supports each connected to a respective one of the first and second proximal ends, the top step supports located above the connector plates during use, in a generally horizontal plane; a fourth plurality of threaded fasteners, different ones of which pass through one of the fastener holes in the top step plate and a corresponding fastener hole in one of the first and second top step supports to connect the top step supports to the bottom of the top step plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71186
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15795743', '10115588', '15266106', '11214365', '15303263']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8145450030527825
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5388630179773523
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7869768045452395
- Mean Citation Score: 222.735442
- Max Citation Score: 387.09665
- Similarity Product: 374.0620874257058

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