PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878165
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["156", "242000"]

Abstract:
A novel material comprising collections of prepreg plies and a variable thickness core material such as sheet molding compound or metal, methods of forming said material, and golf clubs comprising said material are disclosed herein.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n providing first and second pluralities of prepreg materials; providing a variable thickness sheet molding compound comprising a plurality of bundles of pre-spread carbon fibers having elongated oval cross-sections and a matrix material; providing a cap; forming one or more holes in the cap; forming a combination material from the first and second pluralities of prepreg materials and the sheet molding compound; shaping the combination material into a patch; affixing the patch to a surface of a golf club head; affixing the cap to the patch; and filling the one or more holes with a thermoplastic material wherein the combination material satisfies at least one equation selected from the group consisting of Dxx Dyy > C \ue89e \ue89e and Dyy Dxx > C , wherein D is the bending stiffness of the combination material, wherein the plurality of bundles of pre-spread carbon fibers are randomly assorted within the matrix material, and wherein C is at least 1.05 and is no more than 1.10.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.26667
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14158963', '14219814', '14681909', '12004386', '15383020']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.913835522901695
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5549994194092703
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8779519125524525
- Mean Citation Score: 332.131506
- Max Citation Score: 442.64258
- Similarity Product: 349.0315678671432

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

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