PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878132
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["074", "548000"]

Abstract:
An appliance knob stabilization device includes a bushing defining a first passage receiving an appliance knob shaft of an appliance knob therein. The device includes a flange having a radially extending first surface with the bushing being integral therewith and extending axially therefrom. The first surface of the flange is mountable behind a front panel of an appliance such that the bushing extends outwardly through an opening defined in the front panel. The flange defines a second passage receiving an appliance shaft operably engaged with an actuatable component in the appliance. The first passage and the second passage cooperate to form a continuous passage. The appliance knob shaft engages the appliance shaft along the continuous passage to reduce lateral movement of the appliance knob perpendicularly to the appliance shaft during rotational actuation of the actuatable component by the appliance knob. An associated method is also provided.

Claim (Index 13):
The method of  claim 10 , comprising engaging a fastening mechanism, engaged with the first surface of the flange, with the front panel after inserting the bushing through the opening defined by the front panel, such that the flange is mounted behind the front panel of the appliance and such that the bushing extends outwardly through the opening defined in the front panel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14728996', '12425469', '15064937', '14859537', '16087700']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7948525238722977
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.459487216785223
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7613159931635902
- Mean Citation Score: 179.54475399999995
- Max Citation Score: 184.26418
- Similarity Product: 114.65275550364257

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