PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918735
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["473", "332000"]

Abstract:
A ball striking device, such as a golf club head, includes a face having a ball striking surface configured for striking a ball and a body connected to the face and extending rearwardly from the face. The body has an impact-influencing structure in the form of a channel positioned on at least one surface of the body. A majority of a force generated by impact with a ball is absorbed by the impact-influencing structure, and a majority of a response force generated by the head upon impact with the ball is generated by the impact-influencing structure. The face may have increased stiffness as compared to existing faces, and may include a stiffening structure to create the increased stiffness, such as a porous or cellular stiffening structure.

Claim (Index 15):
A golf club head comprising:\n a face having a ball striking surface and being defined by a peripheral edge; a body connected to the face and extending rearward from the face to define an enclosed volume, the body having a front side, a rear side, a heel side, a toe side, a crown, and a sole; a center recess located on a surface of the body, the center recess having a first periphery defined by first boundary edges, wherein the center recess extends between a heel end and a toe end located on opposite sides of a geometric centerline of the body; a heel recess located on the surface of the body and located between the heel side of the body and the geometric centerline of the body, the heel recess having a second periphery defined by second boundary edges; and a toe recess located on the surface of the body and located between the toe side of the body and the geometric centerline of the body, the heel recess having a third periphery defined by third boundary edges, wherein the first boundary edges of the center recess and the second boundary edges of the heel recess are disconnected and separated from each other by a heel spacing portion separating the center recess from the heel recess, and wherein the first boundary edges of the center recess and the third boundary edges of the toe recess are disconnected and separated from each other by a toe spacing portion separating the center recess from the toe recess.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14809960', '14809973', '14809970', '13308036', '13308039']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.790930859329833
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6062007174722414
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7724578451440739
- Mean Citation Score: 542.493268
- Max Citation Score: 567.3208
- Similarity Product: 515.4193756508827

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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