PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16220530
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["439", "352000"]

Abstract:
A cable conduit end for securing a cable to a cable abutment of a latch is provided. The cable conduit end including: a housing; an alignment feature incorporated into a surface of the housing; a pair of flexible retention features integrally formed with the housing of the conduit end, wherein the flexible retention features are spring biased into a first position.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of securing a cable conduit end to a cable abutment of a latch housing, comprising:\n inserting a housing of the cable conduit end into an opening of the cable abutment; guiding an alignment feature incorporated into a surface of the housing between a pair of features located in the opening of the cable abutment; deflecting a pair of flexible retention features integrally formed with the conduit end outwardly from a first position as the cable conduit end as it is inserted into the opening of the cable abutment; engaging a pair of retention features of the cable abutment with a distal end of the pair of flexible retention features after they have been deflected back towards the first position, wherein the pair of flexible retention features are spring biased into the first position; and engaging a pair of side walls of the opening of the cable abutment with the alignment feature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.675
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15336000', '15507481', '10225750', '12203522', '12998458']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7691738688741208
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4932030242296237
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7415767844096711
- Mean Citation Score: 173.306188
- Max Citation Score: 280.5661
- Similarity Product: 222.5497174671173

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