PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917228
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["277", "396000"]

Abstract:
A seal assembly for an assembly of a vehicle is provided. The seal assembly comprises a seal configured to create a seal between first and second components of the vehicle assembly and a retaining element configured to couple the seal to the first component prior to assembly of the vehicle assembly, wherein at least a portion of the retaining element is deformable and is configured to deform from a first state to a second state during installation or use of the seal assembly, such that after said deformation the retaining element no longer couples the seal to the first component.

Claim (Index 13):
The seal assembly of  claim 1 , wherein the retaining element comprises a first flange, a second flange and a body portion extending between the first and second flanges.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16667
- Patent Class: 277.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12933032', '15343696', '13468673', '15383182', '15068712']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7637861227665569
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4919790940896085
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7366054198988621
- Mean Citation Score: 166.78084599999997
- Max Citation Score: 185.86761
- Similarity Product: 125.07255655810296

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

Dataset: test