PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962199
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["052", "745100"]

Abstract:
A concrete section and method for constructing a wall includes first and second concrete sections identically configured and dimensioned to allow the entire concrete wall to be constructed via one concrete section design, thereby minimizing labor time and parts. The single design for all concrete sections for constructing a concrete wall is achieved by vertically “offsetting” corresponding and oppositely disposed first and third locking fingers; and vertically offsetting corresponding and oppositely disposed second and fourth locking fingers. First and second locking finger receiving recesses are also vertically offset to horizontally align a first recess of a second concrete section with a fourth locking finger of a first concrete section; and to horizontally align a second recess of a first concrete section with a first locking finger of a second concrete section. All horizontal alignment occurs when the bottom walls of the first and second concrete sections are coplanar orientated, thereby promoting the snug joining of a locking finger with a cooperating recess.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for securing adjacent concrete sections together to construct a wall, said method comprising the steps of:\n providing a first concrete section comprising:\n front and back substantially planar walls; \n a first side portion having a first locking finger with a first vertical aperture; \n a first side portion having a second locking finger with a second vertical aperture, said first and second locking fingers being vertically separated a predetermined distance that forms a first recess; \n a second side portion having a third locking finger with a third vertical aperture; and \n a second side portion having a fourth locking finger with a fourth vertical aperture, said third and fourth locking fingers being vertically separated a predetermined distance that forms a second recess; \n providing a second concrete section comprising:\n front and back substantially planar walls; \n a first side portion having a first locking finger with a first vertical aperture; \n a first side portion having a second locking finger with a second vertical aperture, said first and second locking fingers of said second concrete section being vertically separated a distance that forms a first recess that promotes the snug insertion of said first locking finger of said second concrete section into said second recess of said first concrete section; \n a second side portion having a third locking finger with a third vertical aperture; and \n a second side portion having a fourth locking finger with a fourth vertical aperture; \n positioning said first and second concrete sections to ultimately form a predetermined configuration for a concrete wall; \n forcibly urging said first locking finger of said second concrete section into said second recess in said first concrete section, and simultaneously urging said fourth locking finger of said first concrete section into said first recess in said second concrete section; \n vertically and axially aligning said third and fourth vertical apertures of said first concrete section with said first and second vertical apertures of said second concrete section; \n inserting a stabilizing rod through said vertically and axially aligned third and fourth apertures of said first concrete section and said vertically and axially aligned first and second apertures of said second concrete section; and \n injecting a binding agent into said aligned apertures of said second end portion of said first concrete section and said first end portion of said second concrete section with said stabilizing rod inserted through said aligned apertures, whereby, after said binding agent hardens, said stabilizing rod and said second end portion of said first concrete section and said first end portion of said second concrete section are rigidly secured together, thereby maintaining the relative positions of said first and second concrete sections when repeating the method to ultimately secure a quantity of concrete sections together that complete a concrete wall having a predetermined configuration and corresponding dimensions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29333
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15588556', '13690309', '11891130', '15916420', '14656933']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.809204041190465
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4877080450313139
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.77705444157455
- Mean Citation Score: 196.966316
- Max Citation Score: 231.44316
- Similarity Product: 172.46418160568473

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