PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16040399
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["299", "011000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a drill and blast method for advancing the tunnel face in a mine, which makes use of a mobile canopy. The mobile canopy having vertical supports connected to a frame that supports a shield. The mobile canopy allows for face production activities and ground support activities to occur simultaneously or near simultaneously. This allows for more rapid advancement of the tunnel face compared to traditional batch drill and blast techniques.

Claim (Index 33):
The mobile canopy of  claim 31 , wherein one or more of the plurality of vertical supports are adjustable to lengthen the support.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60417
- Patent Class: 299.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14432169', '12918476', '15815702', '14139680', '15686105']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6975149651328609
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5097193790754109
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.678735406527116
- Mean Citation Score: 150.319321
- Max Citation Score: 298.3166
- Similarity Product: 207.6847669129968

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

Dataset: test