PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15743524
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["294", "005000"]

Abstract:
A wrist brace device has a splint member including an arm portion for support along an inner forearm of a user, and a palm portion for supporting a palm on a palm supporting surface of the palm portion which is oriented generally in the direction of the arm portion to prevent overextension of the hand of the user relative to the forearm. A tool receiving surface is provided on the palm portion opposite from the palm supporting surface for engaging a handle of a tool thereon such that impacts from a tool head of the tool are directed substantially perpendicularly to the upper palm supporting surface and the arm portion of the user.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of supporting a work tool comprising a shaft extending in a longitudinal direction between a first end and a second end, a handle supported perpendicularly to the shaft at the first end of the shaft, and a tool head supported on the shaft at the second end of the shaft which is configured for being impacted in the longitudinal direction of the shaft, wherein the method comprises:\n providing a splint member including i) an arm portion, ii) a palm portion that is rigid and fixed relative to the arm portion which has an upper palm supporting surface extending from the arm portion in the longitudinal direction of the arm portion, and iii) a lower tool receiving surface opposite from the upper palm supporting surface; supporting the rigid splint member such that the arm portion extends longitudinally along a portion of an inner forearm of a user and such that the palm portion supports a palm of the user thereon to extend in the longitudinal direction of the arm portion that extends along the inner forearm of the user; and engaging the handle against the lower tool receiving surface such that impacts from the tool head are directed substantially perpendicularly to the upper palm supporting surface and the palm of the user supported thereon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10909
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12120917', '12251273', '11068154', '13311222', '10793393']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7395809957023187
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.49423164479863
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.71504606061195
- Mean Citation Score: 225.822734
- Max Citation Score: 249.53789
- Similarity Product: 172.8573130207419

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

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