PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164827
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["211", "085700"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a watersports board rack for attaching to a support member (e.g., hanging down from an overhead support tower) of a boat. The rack may have a low profile, superior padding and an increased contact area compared to current rack systems, as well as at least one strap for securing the board against the padding and a coupler for attaching to the overhead support member. The rack may thus be operable to securely hold up to two watersports boards (e.g., two wakesurf boards) without the usual wear and tear (e.g., dents and scrapes) that occurs from regular contact with the tines of current rack systems. The rack may thus increase the boat's capacity to securely store watersports boards while the boat is in motion, and due to the low profile, the rack will not substantially reduce headroom or require removal from a folding tower before folding the tower down for transporting and storing the boat.

Claim (Index 12):
A rack system for securing a watersports board in a boat, the system comprising:\n a. a substantially planar base plate having a substantially flat interface surface for said watersports board and having a size and shape that overlaps and interfaces with substantially an entire width of a surface of a deck of the watersports board when said watersports board is secured to said base plate; b. a securing device for securing said watersports board to said base plate, wherein a deck of said watersports board interfaces with said substantially flat interface surface of said base plate such that said surface of said deck of the watersports board is substantially parallel to said substantially flat surface of said base plate; c. a coupler for providing a mechanical connection point operable to attach to said base plate to an underside of a crossbar of an overhead ski boat tower such that the base plate is substantially parallel to a deck of said boat; and d. an adjustable bracket between said base plate and said coupler, said adjustable bracket being operable to allow the base plate to be positioned to store said watersports board at various angles relative to said coupler, including oblique angles relative to said crossbar.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95556
- Patent Class: 211.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11078578', '13967137', '16020744', '10907332', '15193817']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7540734632660031
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4824749462563379
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7269136115650366
- Mean Citation Score: 174.807252
- Max Citation Score: 193.19308
- Similarity Product: 131.54423112910987

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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