PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15995628
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["223", "078000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for shaping a glove. The apparatus broadly includes an elongated shaping portion and a handle portion. The elongated shaping portion is made of a deformable material that holds its shape when bent without the use of heat and that is configured to be inserted into a single slot of the glove where a user's digit is positioned during use. The handle portion is connected to the shaping portion and is made of at least one of plastic, tape, and rubber.

Claim (Index 1):
A glove-shaping device, operable to be positioned in engagement with a movable glove element for shaping a glove in preparation for use, the glove-shaping device comprising:\n a plurality of axially-extending shaping members, each shaping member including an elongated shaping portion and a handle portion; said elongated shaping portion being bendable along the length thereof and including a deformable material that holds its shape when bent without the use of heat; said handle portion connected to the shaping portion and including at least one of plastic, tape, and rubber; said plurality of shaping members being stacked alongside one another to provide one or more adjacent pairs of elongated shaping portions that are engaged and are at least partly axially, coextensive and configured to engage the movable glove element; and said elongated shaping portions each presenting opposite axially-extending faces and opposite axially-extending edges, with each adjacent pair of shaping portions having respective axially-extending faces engaged with one another.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 223.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10522379', '12956908', '12956978', '10850556', '13060055']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6251920461843418
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4424181855869399
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6069146601246016
- Mean Citation Score: 133.007728
- Max Citation Score: 135.89726000000002
- Similarity Product: 103.26770871471167

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

Dataset: test