PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866964
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["052", "024000"]

Abstract:
A snow guard for a standing seam metal roof, which may impede falling or melting snow and ice and may prevent gutters from being overwhelmed by falling or melting snow and ice. Such a snow guard may be fitted to the standing seams of the roof by screws or similar fasteners. The snow guard may prevent leakage through the holes created by the fasteners, may aesthetically blend into the material of the standing seam metal roof system, and may function as a base for scaffold systems. Such a snow guard may also add strength to the panels on which it is disposed. Finally, such a snow guard may also have the benefit of being easy to install.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for installing a snow guard, the snow guard comprising:\n an upper base plate, the upper base plate comprising a thickened edge portion formed from the material of the upper base plate and disposed along an upper edge of the upper base plate, the upper base plate further comprising a flange connection to an upper barrier plate disposed along a lower edge of the upper base plate; the upper barrier plate comprising a first raised portion extending from the flange connection of the upper base plate at a first angle with a length of the upper base plate, a second raised portion having a flange connection to a lower base plate disposed along a lower edge of the second raised portion and extending from the flange connection of the lower base plate at a second angle with a length of the lower base plate, the second raised portion terminating in a flange connection to a lower barrier plate and further having a rounded edge connecting the second raised portion to the first raised portion; the lower base plate comprising a flange connection to a lower barrier plate disposed along a lower edge of the lower base plate; and the lower barrier plate extending from the flange connection of the lower base plate in a direction at a third angle to the lower base plate, the lower barrier plate comprising a thickened edge portion formed from the material of the lower barrier plate and disposed along a lower edge of the lower barrier plate; wherein the method for installing said snow guard comprises: aligning the snow guard with a standing seam of a roof such that the upper base plate and lower base plate are aligned parallel with the standing seam, the upper barrier plate extends outward away from the standing seam, and the lower barrier plate extends over an end of the standing seam; and installing a connector in at least one of the upper base plate and the lower base plate, said connector extending through the at least one of the upper base plate and the lower base plate and into the standing seam.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96875
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14670925', '14698905', '11605240', '10898552', '10784812']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8393174732480951
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5115501451974924
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8065407404430349
- Mean Citation Score: 312.139076
- Max Citation Score: 328.53812
- Similarity Product: 286.8961703677201

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