PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16107251
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["108", "147190"]

Abstract:
A desk within a work surface or table such that the desk can be raised and lowered to any desired position in relation to the work surface using an actuator that controls the use of telescoping legs or rods. During the process of returning the desk back to its original flush, or in horizontal seamless alignment with, the rest of the work surface, a knee action safety device co-acts, or in combination, with a gas spring is used for controlling the lowering of the desk and creating a virtually weightless of desk during final descent; thus, eliminating the possibility of a person's limb or hand being crushed or severely injured, even if these are providing obstruction

Claim (Index 12):
A method for raising and lowering a desk in relation to a work surface, comprising the steps of:\n defining the desk in horizontal alignment in relation to the work surface as a first position; moving the desk from the first position to a second position that is separated from the work surface; moving the desk from the second position back to the first position using the following steps; (a) retracting an actuating arm and allowing the weight of the desk to cause the desk to begin lowering; (b) during the lowering, engaging a gas spring to the desk, the gas spring providing a resistance weight; (c) defining the difference between the weight of the desk and the resistance weight to be a net lowering weight of the desk; (d) if an obstruction is encountered between the desk and the work surface causing resistance against the lowering of the desk, performing the following additional steps:\n (i) continuing to retract the actuating arm and disengaging the actuating arm from the desk; \n (ii) allowing only the net lowering weight of the desk to engage the obstruction; \n (iii) lifting the desk to allow removal of the obstruction; \n (iv) allowing the net lowering weight of the desk to continue to lower the desk until the desk is beck in the original position in relation to the work surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53659
- Patent Class: 108.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13946004', '15808600', '14883010', '15439366', '15680994']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6810376689003458
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4931365322659566
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6622475552369068
- Mean Citation Score: 170.34011399999997
- Max Citation Score: 192.40036
- Similarity Product: 143.99320403390885

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