PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873492
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["473", "451000"]

Abstract:
A ball, and in particular a baseball or softball, including one or more sensors such as accelerometers and/or inertial measurement units, and systems and methods using the same to improve a pitcher's pitching performance are described herein. In some embodiments, the ball may include one or more inertial measurement units and/or accelerometers capable of monitoring motion of the ball while it is thrown. Once a ball is thrown, in response to the inertial measurement unit(s) and/or accelerometer(s), one or more indicators may be caused to perform an action. For example, one or more user interfaces may be used to display graphs for illustrating a trajectory of a ball after it has been thrown. Various statistics, such as velocity, a change in vertical displacement, a change in horizontal displacement, and a spin rate may also be indicated on the user interface.

Claim (Index 1):
A system, comprising:\n a ball comprising:\n at least one sensor; \n at least one first processor; and \n first communications circuitry; and \n a user device comprising:\n second communications circuitry; \n memory comprising at least one predefined value for each of a plurality of pitches; \n a display that displays the plurality of pitches; and \n at least one second processor operable to:\n determine that a selection of a type of pitch for the ball to be thrown as has been made; \n retrieve, from the user device's memory, the at least one predefined value for the selected type of pitch; and \n send, using the second communications circuitry, the predefined threshold values to the ball's first communications circuitry.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85227
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14730906', '14731024', '13570622', '14188880', '14188804']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6413751140538041
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5271336129480371
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6299509639432275
- Mean Citation Score: 262.93286
- Max Citation Score: 362.1648
- Similarity Product: 264.18974348258973

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

Dataset: test