PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16143610
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["052", "588100"]

Abstract:
Floor panels are provided with a mechanical locking system including a flexible locking element in a locking groove which during a horizontal motion is displaced vertically. A panel system including a plurality of rectangular panels with long and short edges which are mechanically connectable to each other along at least one pair of adjacent edges, said panels each being provided with a tongue and groove formed in one piece with the panels for mechanically locking together said adjacent edges at right angles to the principal plane of the panels, thereby forming a vertical mechanical connection between the panels, said panels being provided with a first locking element at one first edge formed in one piece with the panel and a locking groove at an opposite second edge, the locking groove being open towards a rear side or a front side of the panel.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of assembling a flooring system comprising a plurality of floor panels with edges which are mechanically connectable to each other along pairs of adjacent edges, said floor panels being provided with tongue and groove formed in one piece with the panels for mechanically locking together said adjacent edges at right angles to the principal plane of the panels, said panels being provided with a first locking element at one first edge formed in one piece with the panel and a locking groove at an opposite second edge, the locking groove being open towards a rear side or a front side of the panel, and each panel being provided with a second locking element, formed of a separate material and connected to the locking groove,\n the method comprising: forming a vertical mechanical connection between the panels with the tongue and groove, and locking the panels to each other horizontally parallel to the principal plane and at right angles to the joint edges with the first and second locking elements, by displacing said two panels horizontally towards each other, while at least a part of the second locking element at said second edge is resiliently displaced vertically, until said adjacent edges of the two panels are brought into engagement with each other horizontally and the second locking element at said second edge is displaced towards its initial position against the first locking element at the first edge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09859
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14730691', '14206286', '13253283', '11092748', '15148820']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8672930970682424
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5383431380659122
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8343981011680094
- Mean Citation Score: 372.478868
- Max Citation Score: 386.11475
- Similarity Product: 378.0080096103698

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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