PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16196965
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["102", "501000"]

Abstract:
Firearm projectiles with turbulence-inducing surfaces, firearm cartridges including the same, and associated methods. A firearm projectile comprises a projectile body and a turbulence-inducing surface at least substantially enclosing the projectile body. The firearm projectile is at least substantially spherical. The turbulence-inducing surface is configured to induce a drag crisis in a drag coefficient of the firearm projectile when the firearm projectile travels through air with a Reynolds number that is less than 300,000.

Claim (Index 5):
The shot shell of  claim 12 , wherein the turbulence-inducing surface of each of the plurality of shot pellets consists of a plurality of non-overlapping surface loci; wherein each surface locus of the plurality of surface loci has a corresponding locus radius, as measured between the surface locus and a center point of the projectile body; wherein each shot pellet of the plurality of shot pellets has a reference radius that is equal to the arithmetic mean of the corresponding locus radii of the plurality of surface loci; wherein each surface locus of the plurality of surface loci further has a corresponding radial deviation that is equal to the corresponding locus radius minus the reference radius; wherein each shot pellet of the plurality of shot pellets is characterized by a roughness metric that is based, at least in part, on the set of corresponding radial deviations of the plurality of surface loci; wherein the roughness metric includes a relative roughness ratio, defined as the ratio of a characteristic roughness depth of the turbulence-inducing surface to a diameter of the shot pellet; wherein the characteristic roughness depth is equal to an arithmetical mean deviation, defined as the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of the set of corresponding radial deviations of the plurality of surface loci; and wherein the absolute value of the relative roughness ratio is at least 0.0001 and at most 0.035.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71739
- Patent Class: 102.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15461848', '14280450', '14332160', '13943625', '15282160']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7492232667958212
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4729056669929767
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7215915068155367
- Mean Citation Score: 187.0064
- Max Citation Score: 202.7499
- Similarity Product: 159.62307288621068

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