PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15932270
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["024", "0690SK"]

Abstract:
A device for tightening footwear having a plurality of lace sections. The device comprises a lace receiving member comprising a plurality of apertures therethrough. Each of the apertures are configured for receiving one of the plurality of lace sections. The lace receiving member rotates between a first orientation and a second orientation allowing the plurality of lace sections to tighten around the lace receiving member and tighten the footwear. Tightening brings paired lace holes on the footwear closer together, while loosening moves the paired lace holes farther apart.

Claim (Index 10):
The device of  claim 1  wherein the lace receiving member and the transverse lever are of unitary construction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 24.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10459843', '11842013', '12853141', '11842009', '11842005']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8027767844025198
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4678951746435115
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.769288623426619
- Mean Citation Score: 242.175532
- Max Citation Score: 252.9677
- Similarity Product: 167.08436418024303

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