PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917228
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["277", "396000"]

Abstract:
A seal assembly for an assembly of a vehicle is provided. The seal assembly comprises a seal configured to create a seal between first and second components of the vehicle assembly and a retaining element configured to couple the seal to the first component prior to assembly of the vehicle assembly, wherein at least a portion of the retaining element is deformable and is configured to deform from a first state to a second state during installation or use of the seal assembly, such that after said deformation the retaining element no longer couples the seal to the first component.

Claim (Index 15):
The seal assembly according to  claim 13 , wherein the first flange and/or the body portion comprise a plurality of slits configured to reduce the diameter of the first flange.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16667
- Patent Class: 277.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12933032', '15343696', '13468673', '15383182', '15068712']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7618369487948071
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5024755275647635
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7359008066718027
- Mean Citation Score: 166.78084599999997
- Max Citation Score: 185.86761
- Similarity Product: 111.57376973834756

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

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