PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16125421
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["473", "342000"]

Abstract:
A ball striking device, such as a golf club head, includes a face having a ball striking surface, an inner surface opposite the ball striking surface, and a thickness defined between the ball striking surface and the inner surface, and a body connected to the face and extending rearward from the face. The face has a modulus gradient across the thickness of the face, such that the modulus of the face varies at different distances from the ball striking surface. The face may also include at least one of an insert, a composite material, a multi-layered structure, and/or a portion treated by a surface treatment to contribute to the modulus gradient.

Claim (Index 4):
The iron-type golf club head of  claim 1 , wherein the insert further comprises a surface treatment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15789
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13484987', '15443930', '14535955', '13252780', '13907439']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7569891776588648
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5649060953117517
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7377808694241534
- Mean Citation Score: 470.10099800000006
- Max Citation Score: 520.76245
- Similarity Product: 345.4860981847316

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