PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940061
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["428", "058000"]

Abstract:
A decorative covering for a vehicle interior panel is made from two sheets of material joined together at a seam. The sheets of material have matching alignment features along respective edges to aid in visual alignment during the joining operation. The alignment features are spaced along the edge of a decorative layer, and cutouts are formed along a corresponding edge of an attached backing layer such that each alignment feature is visible through one of the cutouts when viewed from the back side. The cutouts are larger than the alignment features and formed before the two layers are laminated together, effectively increasing allowable tolerances during lamination. This construction is particularly useful with leather, which is often subjected to cut-and-sew operations and used with a backing layer.

Claim (Index 13):
A vehicle interior panel comprising a decorative covering formed from a first sheet of material joined with a different sheet of material at a seam with each of the sheets of material being on opposite sides of the seam, the first sheet of material comprising:\n a decorative layer having a decorative side, an opposite back side, and an edge extending alone a perimeter of the first sheet of material; a backing layer attached to the back side of the decorative layer and having a corresponding edge extending along the edge of the decorative layer; a plurality of alignment features spaced along the edge of the decorative layer in an edgewise pattern; and a plurality of cutouts formed along the corresponding edge of the backing layer, each cutout being located such that each alignment feature is visible through one of the cutouts when the first sheet of material is viewed from the back side, wherein the different sheet of material has alignment features spaced in a matching edgewise pattern along an edge of the different sheet of material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65432
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13570689', '10657782', '12564028', '13635690', '13106148']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8921363285946641
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4697459235080042
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8498972880859981
- Mean Citation Score: 155.030452
- Max Citation Score: 158.27937
- Similarity Product: 114.81089746175944

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