PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16242100
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["280", "033992"]

Abstract:
A shopping cart basket having a handle region located at the front or the sides of the shopping cart basket is disclosed. The forward handle region may have a plurality of openings along the front, corners, and sides to allow a customer to easily grip the shopping cart basket and guide the shopping cart. The shopping cart basket may be formed from a metallic wire portion and a non-metallic forward handle region, or in some embodiments, the shopping cart basket may be formed from a fully formed from a polymer material.

Claim (Index 11):
A shopping cart comprising:\n a frame including a rear handle and a chassis connected to four casters, a shopping cart basket attached to the frame, wherein the shopping cart basket comprises a lower basket portion including a front wall on a front end, an opening on a rear end opposite the front wall, a first side wall extending between the front wall and the rear end, a second side wall extending between the front wall and the rear end opposite the first side wall, and a bottom wall extending between the front wall, the first side wall, and the second side wall, a forward handle region forming an upper portion of the shopping cart basket, wherein the forward handle region includes a main body portion positioned along a top of the front wall of the shopping cart basket, a first side arm that extends from the main body portion along a top of the first side wall of the shopping cart basket, and a second side arm that extends from the main body portion along a top of the second side wall of the shopping cart basket, and a groove that extends along the first side arm, along the main body portion, and along the second side arm, and wherein the groove is configured to receive a support rod that secures to the shopping cart basket to the chassis of the shopping cart, and wherein the forward handle region includes an upper surface that forms an uppermost surface of the shopping cart basket, wherein the upper surface is spaced from a top groove surface of the groove at the front end, and wherein the upper surface and the top groove surface converge toward each other along the first side arm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08511
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12340276', '14160433', '13925392', '14214434', '12168729']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.821379457515332
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5120143031238757
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7904429420761864
- Mean Citation Score: 294.0240720000001
- Max Citation Score: 302.3941700000001
- Similarity Product: 247.6116211752713

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

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