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 2):
The vented dock float of  claim 1 , wherein: both the interior walls of the bore and the shaft are threaded and threadably engaged, the plug is partially tightened in the venting position, and the plug is fully tightened in the sealing position.

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): 0.7827072637047063
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4886188039389668
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7532984177281324
- Mean Citation Score: 200.643104
- Max Citation Score: 211.0092
- Similarity Product: 152.8414652033329

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