PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961024
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["296", "026100"]

Abstract:
A truck bed extension apparatus can include a hinge assembly having a hinge plate configured to be coupled to a primary tailgate of a pickup. An auxiliary tailgate includes a lower edge pivotally coupled to a front edge of the hinge plate, the auxiliary tailgate being pivotally movable between a stowed configuration co-planar with and adjacent to the hinge plate and a deployed configuration extending upwardly from the hinge plate. A pair of side panels is pivotally coupled to opposed side edges of the auxiliary tailgate and selectively movable between retracted and extended configurations. The hinge assembly can include a limiter configured to limit movement of the hinge assembly to prevent sagging of the auxiliary tailgate when in a stowed configuration.

Claim (Index 9):
A truck bed extension apparatus comprising:\n a hinge assembly that includes a first hinge plate configured to be coupled to a primary tailgate of a pickup truck in a position in which said first hinge plate has a front edge spaced inwardly from an uppermost free edge of the primary tailgate, the inward direction extending from the uppermost free edge toward the pivot attaching the primary tailgate to the truck bed; and an auxiliary tailgate having a lower edge pivotally coupled to hinge plate assembly, said auxiliary tailgate being pivotally movable between a stowed configuration generally co-planar with and adjacent to the primary tailgate, in which an entirety of said hinge assembly is spaced inwardly from said uppermost free edge of said primary tailgate, and a deployed configuration extending upwardly from and perpendicular to the primary tailgate; wherein said auxiliary tailgate is pivotally movable to a released configuration generally perpendicular to and extending downwardly from the front edge of the hinge plate and situated in a direction opposite a direction of said deployed configuration and in which said auxiliary tailgate is spaced outwardly from said uppermost free edge of said primary tailgate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06557
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15277273', '14956692', '12210341', '15247262', '12310878']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.800164671649051
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5639554202663226
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7765437465107782
- Mean Citation Score: 346.25527
- Max Citation Score: 494.424
- Similarity Product: 456.4145797462463

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