PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16207399
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["473", "519000"]

Abstract:
A baseball bat may be provided as part of a baseball training kit and a method of training a baseball player. The bat may include an internal tube sized to accommodate a plurality of cylindrical weights. Similarly sized cylindrical spacers, having significantly less mass than the weights, may also be inserted into the internal tube. Players can select different weight resistances by selecting which of a plurality of spacers and weights should be inserted, and in which order. A cap may be provided proximate the handle in order to secure the weights and spacers within the internal tube.

Claim (Index 1):
A baseball training kit comprising:\n a baseball bat having a handle and a barrel, the bat including a tube extending through the interior of the bat along a longitudinal axis of the bat, the tube having a tube length; a plurality of weights insertable within the tube, the plurality of weights including at least a first weight having a first length and a second weight having a second length; a plurality of spacers insertable within the tube, the plurality of spacers including at least a first spacer having the first length and a second spacer having the second length; and a removable cap proximate to the handle of the bat for sealing the tube, wherein the each of the plurality of weights and spacers include a channel provided on an outer surface of each of the plurality of weights and spacers, the channel extending longitudinally across each of the plurality of weights and spacers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89286
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['09772689', '09882627', '10766434', '13364312', '10622717']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6146168182196916
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4767005985923655
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6008251962569591
- Mean Citation Score: 170.20240600000002
- Max Citation Score: 185.19862
- Similarity Product: 134.47390422697543

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

Dataset: test