PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15915277
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["015", "246000"]

Abstract:
A device for removing obstructions impeding movement of a piece of equipment is disclosed. The device includes a sweep housing securely holding at least part of a rectangular sweep. A bristle portion of the sweep extends downward and away from the sweep housing, and includes a plurality of bristles. The sweep housing is made up of an inside bracket, which mounts to the surgical table by an adhesive strip or other means, and an outside bracket which comprises a thumbscrew or other locking mechanisms for securing the sweep housing and sweep in a fixed position with respect to each other. When an operator mounts the device, obstructions are pushed away from castors on the base of the surgical table by the one or more bristles.

Claim (Index 12):
An obstacle clearing device comprising:\n a sweep; the sweep comprising a bristle attachment and a track body; the bristle attachment and the track body connected by one or more bristle attachment screws; the bristle attachment comprising a bristle head and a plurality of bristles extending from the bristle attachment; the track body comprising at least two sides, the at least two sides each comprising at least one sweep concave track and at least one sweep convex track; a sweep housing the sweep housing comprising an inside bracket and an outside bracket; the inside bracket and the outside bracket connected by one or more housing screws; the inside bracket comprising one or more pilot openings; the sweep housing comprising at least one interior facing housing convex track and at least one interior facing housing concave track; the sweep slidably connected to the interior of the sweep housing; and the sweep housing further comprising a thumbscrew standoff protruding outwardly and a thumbscrew threadedly-connected to thumbscrew standoff.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86111
- Patent Class: 15.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11083594', '12876334', '10768363', '12319309', '11544136']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7862952277944689
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4388906767718221
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7515547726922043
- Mean Citation Score: 115.840383
- Max Citation Score: 118.87492
- Similarity Product: 86.85884501371383

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

Dataset: test