PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899040
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["280", "769000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle accessory hitch assembly for attaching an accessory to a vehicle. The vehicle may include a frame and a bed mounted to the frame. First and second base rails may be disposed on the bed and coupled to the frame of the vehicle, and the vehicle may include a vehicle trailer hitch with a receiver for accepting a shank. In one embodiment, the vehicle accessory hitch assembly may be mechanically connected to each of the first and second base rails and the vehicle trailer hitch such that the vehicle accessory hitch assembly is immovable or stationary relative to the first and second base rails and the vehicle trailer hitch. In another embodiment, the vehicle accessory hitch assembly may be adaptable to connect to differently-configured base rails and vehicle trailer hitch constructions, including different horizontal and vertical spacing between the base rails and the vehicle trailer hitch.

Claim (Index 15):
A vehicle accessory hitch system for attaching an accessory to a vehicle, the vehicle having a frame and a bed mounted to the frame, the vehicle having a vehicle trailer hitch with a receiver for accepting a shank, the vehicle having one or more frame mounting points common to a make of the vehicle, said vehicle accessory hitch system comprising:\n a first base member configured to couple to at least one of the one or more frame mounting points through a surface of the bed, a second base member configured to couple to at least one of the one or more frame mounting points through the surface of the bed; a first hitch member opposing a second hitch member, each of the first and second hitch members including a bed section and a rear section, the bed section configured to extend from a forward area of the bed to a rearward area of the bed, the rear section configured to be in proximity to a rear of the vehicle, each of said bed sections of said first and second hitch members being coupled to said first and second base members; a hitch support coupled to a hitch support mount of the vehicle accessory hitch system, said hitch support having a shank member configured to interface with the receiver of the vehicle trailer hitch, wherein the vehicle accessory hitch system is configured to couple to the vehicle via said first and second hitch members and the vehicle trailer hitch; and an accessory support configured to removably couple to said first hitch member, said second hitch member and said hitch support, said accessory support configured to remain substantially stationary while coupled to said first hitch member, said second hitch member, and said hitch support, said accessory support configured to connect to and support a vehicle accessory near the rear of the vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64407
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15384751', '14753964', '10996910', '10219047', '12283629']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8423700312160541
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.573080502971974
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8154410783916461
- Mean Citation Score: 353.86357200000015
- Max Citation Score: 456.4232
- Similarity Product: 442.1298319234848

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