PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16384477
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["002", "413000"]

Abstract:
The invention includes a protective headpiece and components thereof and methods for their use. Preferred examples comprise a helmet component, a plurality of piers joining said helmet component to a shoulder pad component and an inner hat component permitting the wearer the ability to move the head from side to side and/or up and down within the helmet component without moving the helmet component. The helmet component may comprise a plurality of fluid-filled floating plates or floats on the inner surface thereof to cushion the head against impact during activities including, for example, football, race car driving, military activities and the like.

Claim (Index 21):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a) a helmet component having an interior surface comprising a padding component, and an exterior surface comprising a hard, impact-resistant material, b) a shoulder pad component structured to cover the shoulder blades of a wearer and comprising a hard shell with foam padding underneath; c) at least one force-directing member integrated as part of at least one of the front, the back, and the top, of the shoulder pad component; d) a plurality of piers affixed to said helmet component and said shoulder pad component, and extending between each said helmet component said shoulder pad component, said plurality of piers being integrated into the helmet component as part of the helmet manufacturing process, and each pier of said plurality of piers having an end affixed to said shoulder pad component, respectively, to form a unitary engineered network effective to selectively transfer impact forces from the helmet component through the plurality of piers, and the shoulder pad component to a wearer's shoulders and body in preference to a wearer's head, neck and spine; wherein said helmet component has an interior surface adapted to permit a wearer to turn his or her head from side to side within the helmet component without the helmet component itself moving.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 2.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15057938', '16031451', '15262946', '14194901', '14804871']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6667404294761412
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.596638054408651
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6597301919693922
- Mean Citation Score: 398.23242000000016
- Max Citation Score: 530.0225
- Similarity Product: 481.3012741573155

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