PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916984
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["277", "602000"]

Abstract:
Systems, devices and methods for pipe connectors and associated components are disclosed. Features for no hub clamps, for locking mechanisms on no hub clamps, for tools for no hub clamps, and for gaskets are described. The gaskets may be hourglass-shaped or otherwise taper outward near the ends to facilitate assembly onto pipe ends and that compress inward when a clamp is secured over the gasket. The gaskets may reduce in circumference at the gasket ends upon contraction of the gasket by a clamp onto two pipe ends. The gaskets may include collapsible sections that collapse upon contraction of the gasket by a clamp onto two pipe ends.

Claim (Index 16):
A gasket for connecting two pipe ends, the gasket comprising:\n a rounded sidewall defining a channel therethrough in a first direction, the sidewall comprising a top end, a middle portion, and a bottom end opposite the top end, wherein the top and bottom ends each have a smaller width and circumference in a contracted configuration compared to an expanded configuration, due to clamping of the gasket about the two pipe ends to force the gasket from the expanded configuration into the contracted configuration, and wherein in the expanded configuration the top and bottom ends each have a larger width than the middle portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90164
- Patent Class: 277.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15077082', '14853669', '13907610', '15076800', '15225999']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8083832904069639
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5326613612633626
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7808110974926038
- Mean Citation Score: 255.590502
- Max Citation Score: 386.46838
- Similarity Product: 323.78338003614067

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