PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862416
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["473", "346000"]

Abstract:
A ball striking device includes a ball striking plate having a front surface configured to strike a ball and a rear surface opposite the front surface. The ball striking plate has a desired-contact region and a perimeter. One or more spoke-like reinforcement ribs may be located on the rear surface and may radiate away from the desired-contact region toward the perimeter. At least one of the spoke-like reinforcement ribs may be located in an upper-toe quadrant or in an upper-heel quadrant of the rear surface. One or more encircling reinforcement ribs may be located on the rear surface. The one or more encircling reinforcement ribs may be at least partially encircling the desired-contact region. A thickened portion of the ball striking plate may be positioned behind the desired-contact region of the ball striking plate. The ball striking device may be a golf club head.

Claim (Index 36):
The ball striking device of  claim 34 , wherein:\n the at least three encircling reinforcement ribs partially encircle the thickened portion and have a first end and a second end, and wherein the first end is joined to a first portion of the perimeter of the ball striking plate and the second end is joined to a second portion of the perimeter of the ball striking plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71429
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13905803', '14918254', '13800157', '14926930', '14497826']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7323966886295048
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5690054626920736
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7160575660357618
- Mean Citation Score: 379.5764
- Max Citation Score: 503.96097
- Similarity Product: 351.9439431719864

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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