PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15771698
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["280", "618000"]

Abstract:
A linkage binding for coupling a user's shoed or booted foot to another object, such as a ski or snowshoe. The linkage binding may include an upper plate including an upper surface to which a user's shoed or booted foot is to be secured, a lower plate including a lower surface to which another object is to be secured, a front connecting link hingedly attached to both the upper plate and the lower plate, and a rear connecting link hingedly attached to both the upper plate and the lower plate to form a 4-bar linkage.

Claim (Index 38):
A method of providing and using a linkage binding as an insert between a user's booted foot and a downhill ski binding of a downhill ski, the method comprising:\n providing a linkage binding as recited in  claim 37 ; inserting the linkage binding between the downhill ski binding of the downhill ski and the user's booted foot so that the toe of the user's booted foot is bound to the toe binding of the upper plate, the heel of the user's booted foot is bound to the heel binding of the upper plate, the toe binding of the lower plate is bound to the toe binding of the downhill ski and the heel binding of the lower plate is bound to the heel binding of the downhill ski; with the linkage binding inserted between the downhill ski binding of the downhill ski and the user's booted foot, lifting a heel end of the user's foot during a walking motion of the user in a manner that the heel end of the upper plate of the linkage binding is lifted off the lower plate, and upwards away from the heel binding of the downhill ski and the downhill ski for a first distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28889
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14605696', '12919241', '12483152', '11509696', '12716136']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8380889168320657
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4976034256304492
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.804040367711904
- Mean Citation Score: 266.21952400000004
- Max Citation Score: 274.68945
- Similarity Product: 217.21275289115312

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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