PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16177117
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["052", "379000"]

Abstract:
A sheet metal connector is provided for connecting a brick wall to a second structural member, the connector is received in the mortar joint of the brick wall and is connected to second structural member. The connector is provided with zones of controlled bending and controlled stiffness to allow for controlled bending of the connector in the field.

Claim (Index 1):
A connection between a wall having a mortar joint and a structural member made with a connector, the connection comprising:\n a. the wall having the mortar joint; b. the structural member having a substantially vertically disposed surface, c. the connector, the connector having a mortar joint attachment portion at least partially received in the mortar joint of the wall and a structural member attachment portion attached to the structural member, the structural member attachment portion has a main body and at the end of the main body the structural member attachment portion is joined to an extending portion, the extending portion extending away from the substantially vertically disposed surface of the structural member and extending to the wall having the mortar joint, the extending portion including the mortar joint attachment portion, the connector having a longitudinal axis that extends along the mortar joint attachment portion and to and along the structural member attachment portion, wherein; d. the connector includes one or more controlled stiffness zones where the connector is formed with one or more strengthening portions, one or more controlled bending zones where the connector is adapted to be more easily bent transversely to the longitudinal axis than the connector can be bent transversely to the longitudinal axis in the one or more controlled stiffness zones, and one or more calibrated stiffness zones where the connector can be bent more easily than the connector can be bent in the one or more controlled stiffness zones transversely to the longitudinal axis and where the connector can be bent less easily than in the one or more controlled bending zones transversely to the longitudinal axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84848
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12614357', '13941478', '11859380', '13426176', '10912260']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7791783167400604
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.479836245466482
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7492441096127026
- Mean Citation Score: 173.01759399999997
- Max Citation Score: 177.12445
- Similarity Product: 129.78265120671986

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

Dataset: test