PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16214207
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["473", "383000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for arranging dimples on a golf ball surface in which the dimples are arranged in a pattern derived from at least one irregular domain generated from a regular or non-regular polyhedron. The method includes choosing control points of a polyhedron, generating an irregular domain based on those control points, packing the irregular domain with dimples, and tessellating the irregular domain to cover the surface of the golf ball. The control points include the center of a polyhedral face, a vertex of the polyhedron, a midpoint or other point on an edge of the polyhedron and others. The method ensures that the symmetry of the underlying polyhedron is preserved while minimizing or eliminating great circles due to parting lines.

Claim (Index 11):
A golf ball having an outer surface comprising a plurality of dimples disposed thereon, wherein the dimples are arranged in multiple copies of a first domain and a second domain, the first domain and the second domain being tessellated to cover the outer surface of the golf ball in a uniform pattern having no great circles and consisting of eight first domains and six second domains, and wherein:\n the dimple pattern within the first domain is different from the dimple pattern within the second domain; the plurality of dimples comprises dimples having at least two different diameters including a minimum dimple diameter, a maximum dimple diameter, and, optionally, one or more additional dimple diameters; and for the maximum dimple diameter,\n SD 1 max \u2264 3/2( SD 2 max ), \n \n where SD1 max  is the number of dimples positioned within the first domain having the maximum dimple diameter, SD2 max  is the number of dimples positioned within the second domain having the maximum dimple diameter, SD1 max >0, and SD 2 max >0.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84722
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15707058', '15242336', '15797038', '15848047', '16132924']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7488567433035589
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.7065977877174802
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.744630847744951
- Mean Citation Score: 678.565574
- Max Citation Score: 761.54224
- Similarity Product: 758.6863912363052

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

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