PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956979
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["114", "267000"]

Abstract:
A vented dock float and a method for providing one are provided. The dock float comprises a housing having a venting hole, a flange having a neck aligned with the hole, and a plug having a venting passage for controlling ventilation of the housing interior. The flange is spin-welded onto the exterior wall of the dock float at the venting hole. The float is then filled with light material through the flange neck. The plug having a venting passage is inserted in the neck in a non-sealing position for allowing gas trapped inside the dock float to vent out. Once the majority of the gas is vented out, the plug is moved to a sealing position to seal the dock float interior.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the flange is circular and the planar member is a disk, and wherein the flange further comprises a guide ring formed along a bottom surface of the disk and concentric with the neck.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25862
- Patent Class: 114.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12506852', '12769702', '15070902', '15616315', '14435087']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7790322218712781
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5104469913752631
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7521736988216766
- Mean Citation Score: 200.643104
- Max Citation Score: 211.0092
- Similarity Product: 115.98947279076576

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

Dataset: test