PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16221432
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["224", "241000"]

Abstract:
A tool pouch, tool bag, utility pouch, or similar, comprising one or more individual tool pouches, used by tradesmen in difficult and/or dangerous environments where it would be convenient and preferred for safety reasons for the tool pouches to remain closed or remain open without manual intervention. Tool pouches within a tool pouch are configured with bi-stable hinges in which an over-center cam-spring arrangement alternatively maintains either a fully-closed or a fully-open configuration until an intentional opening or closing action by a user. Individual tool pouches within a tool pouch may be opened or closed independently of the open or closed positions of other tool pouches.

Claim (Index 3):
A tool pouch assembly, comprising:\n a flexible tool pouch having first and second opposing sides; a spring hinged closure formed from a rod or a band, the spring hinged closure including a first side and a second side, wherein the first side of the spring hinged closure and the second side of the spring hinged closure are movable relative to each other between a first stable position and a second stable position, and wherein the first side of the spring hinged closure and the second side of the spring hinged closure are configured to close the top portion of the tool pouch when in the first stable position and to open a top portion of the tool pouch when in the second stable position; a protective sleeve covering the spring hinge closure, the protective sleeve formed from a fabric separate from the tool pouch and substantially surrounding the spring hinged closure; the first side of the spring hinged closure together with the surrounding protective sleeve being attached to the first side of the tool pouch and the second side of the spring hinged closure together with the surrounding protective sleeve being attached to the second side of the tool pouch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 61.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58333
- Patent Class: 224.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15178183', '15503668', '14424409', '16144649', '10813524']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8408802508790645
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5098071288113476
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8077729386722927
- Mean Citation Score: 232.22779800000004
- Max Citation Score: 345.78754
- Similarity Product: 336.25928574482435

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

Dataset: test