PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028306
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["024", "714600"]

Abstract:
Collapsible tunnel systems or segmented tubular structures may be printed on or otherwise attached to base layers on articles of apparel, articles of footwear, or other articles of manufacture. The collapsible tunnel systems have two or more tubular structures attached to the base layer, with tunnels extending through the tubular structures. A tensile strand may be laced through the tunnels in the tubular structure such that when tension is applied to the tensile strand, the tunnels may collapse into a structure with a continuous tunnel through two or more tubular structures. In some embodiments, two or more segmented tubular structures each have two spaced-apart tubular structures joined by a connecting portion, and a tensile strand extending through tunnels in the tubular structures.

Claim (Index 1):
An article of apparel comprising:\n a flexible base layer that is moveable between a first configuration and a second configuration; a plurality of tunnel structures sequentially arranged and attached to the flexible base layer, the plurality of tunnel structures defining a plurality of tunnel paths that are at least partially enclosed, at least some of the plurality of tunnel structures being spaced apart from adjacent ones of the plurality of tunnel structures with respective intermediate regions of the flexible base layer therebetween; and a tensile strand that has a tensile strand path that extends along the plurality of tunnel paths and across the intermediate regions of the flexible base layer, wherein applying tension to the tensile strand causes the flexible base layer to move from the first configuration to the second configuration, the first configuration being an unstressed configuration and the second configuration being a stressed configuration in which the spaced-apart tunnel structures are closer together than when in the unstressed configuration, and wherein the tensile strand path has one or more curved portions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16393
- Patent Class: 24.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15370893', '15370913', '15370976', '14535413', '14535448']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7245773419851093
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4740662664121778
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6995262344278161
- Mean Citation Score: 186.694802
- Max Citation Score: 298.95593
- Similarity Product: 250.0327257510788

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