PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16182562
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["211", "149000"]

Abstract:
A utility rack includes a pair of end supports for supporting one or more shelves there between. Each end support includes a first vertical support having one or more cross members mounted thereto and a second vertical support. The cross members may be mounted to one or more cross member mounts of the first vertical support and are configured to be movable relative to the first vertical support between a stored position in which they are disconnected from the second vertical support and are collapsed inwardly towards the first vertical support for storage or transport and an extended position in which free ends of the cross members may be attached to the second vertical support using fasteners.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of assembling a storage rack comprising:\n providing an unassembled storage rack comprising a first end support, a second end support and at least one shelf in a package, said first and second end support each comprising a first vertical support having at least two cross members rotatably mounted thereto and rotated into a collapsed position in which they extend generally parallel to said first vertical support and a second vertical support which is disconnected to said first vertical support; removing said unassembled storage rack from said package; assembling said first end support by rotating said at least two cross members mounted to said first vertical support thereof away from said first vertical support and connecting free ends of said cross members to said second vertical support thereof; assembling said second end support by rotating said at least two cross members mounted to said first vertical support thereof away from said first vertical support and connecting free ends of said cross members to said second vertical support thereof; and utilizing one or more fasteners to connect said at least one shelf to said first and second end supports to cause said at least one shelf to be supported between said first and second end supports, wherein two or more of the plurality of cross members at least partially overlap each other in a plane defined by the first vertical support and the second vertical support.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0339
- Patent Class: 211.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15893878', '14608648', '10371719', '10956654', '11217164']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7729130778185818
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.529073312299148
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7485291012666384
- Mean Citation Score: 249.691236
- Max Citation Score: 327.9287
- Similarity Product: 257.9915192572832

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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