PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15764796
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["296", "180400"]

Abstract:
The present invention includes methods and apparatus for flexibly attaching a trailer skirt to a trailer. This can include attaching a trailer mounting bracket to a trailer and attaching a bi-modulus bending member to the trailer mounting bracket in a cantilevered configuration at a bracket end of the bi-modulus bending member. The bi-modulus bending member includes a bending element set configured to elastically buckle when a lateral force component exceeds a threshold force, and the bi-modulus bending member is configured to return to a straightened configuration after buckling and bending to a buckled configuration when the threshold force is removed.

Claim (Index 11):
The trailer-skirt coupling apparatus of  claim 10 , where each of the one or more elongate bending elements are a thin-walled member, and where for each of the one or more elongate bending elements, the height of the cross-section is less than the width of the cross-section in the unbuckled configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12245
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15764814', '15764807', '13078982', '12647004', '15257571']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8317432413823111
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5042409622377182
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7989930134678519
- Mean Citation Score: 246.7186
- Max Citation Score: 360.90198
- Similarity Product: 250.9532962181068

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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