PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967169
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["102", "439000"]

Abstract:
A cartridge comprising a bullet, the bullet providing a radially expanding array of bullet fragments upon entering a target and also providing an increase in effective surface area of the bullet within the target by structural features that facilitate tumbling or mushrooming in the target. In an embodiment a pair of axial core members are aligned in a bullet jacket with the forward core member being segmented with separation junctures formed by engaged faces of adjacent segments. Impact causing fracturing of the segments from a base portion.

Claim (Index 1):
A handgun cartridge comprising a cartridge casing with a mouth and an interior, propellant in the interior of the cartridge casing, and a bullet secured in the mouth of the cartridge casing, the cartridge and bullet have a central axis, the bullet having an overall length and a maximum diameter, the ratio of the overall length to the maximum diameter is equal to or less than about 2:1, the bullet comprising:\n a jacket member comprising a rearward wall having a generally circular shape and a circumferential wall extending forwardly from the rearward wall, the circumferential wall having a forward margin; a rearward core member disposed inside the jacket, the rearward core member having a cylindrical exterior surface engaging an inside surface of the circumferential wall, a forward facing surface, and a rearward facing surface, the rearward facing surface of the rearward core member being seated against a forward facing surface of the rearward wall of the jacket; a forward core member disposed inside the jacket forward of the rearward core member; the forward core member comprising a plurality of core segments extending axially forwardly from a base portion of the forward core member, the plurality of segments arranged circularly around the central bullet axis and defining a bullet tip with an axially extending recess at said tip, adjacent pairs of forward core segments having segment faces engaged with each other defining a separation juncture, whereby when the bullet strikes a target the segments are separable from one another at said separation junctures and are separable from the base portion and dispersible radially outwardly in an array; wherein the jacket has a plurality of axially extending tear guides extending rearwardly from the forward margin, whereby when the bullet strikes a target the jacket may petal outwardly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.4918
- Patent Class: 102.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15876186', '15870769', '15866153', '15219012', '13768424']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7678114464450183
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5115970421431189
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7421900060148284
- Mean Citation Score: 306.6384460000001
- Max Citation Score: 335.00284
- Similarity Product: 286.8140896219349

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

Dataset: test