PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027546
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["441", "089000"]

Abstract:
A Personal Flotation Device (PFD), in the form of a vest or like garment, and having a quiver-like receptacle attachment, hinged to the garment for flexibility, is provided. The quiver attachment houses a mast and flag attached to a small flotation device, such that when the user enters the water the flotation device causes the mast and attached flag to rise so that the flag can be seen from a distance and the wearer identified thereby. The quiver element is attached such that it can place the extended mast and flag unobtrusively and at a distance from the wearer's head for comfort. The quiver element comprises a housing for the mast and flotation device and is permeable to water; the quiver element is shaped to guide the mast and flag linearly at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the wearer. The device allows for the flag to be interchanged with other flags so as to better identify the wearer from other users.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of using a passive identification and location device; including the steps of:\n providing a water permeable container; providing a buoyant element and mast within the container, the mast having a proximal end and a distal end, the buoyant element being adjacent the proximal end of the mast, the distal end of the mast extending out from the container; providing an identification element, connectable to the distal end of the mast; providing means to removable attach the container to a person; attaching the identification element to the mast; and attaching the container to the person and causing the buoyant element to rise within the container, pushing the mast further out from the container and raising the identification element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10714
- Patent Class: 441.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15897737', '10413924', '14053961', '12455781', '13960919']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.682374062130515
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4850588223561812
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6626425381530816
- Mean Citation Score: 170.26699399999995
- Max Citation Score: 195.89632
- Similarity Product: 136.54061599578858

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

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