PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903795
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["312", "137000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments for a food display that includes a friction hinge capable of retaining and adjusting a panel without a locking mechanism that requires attachments or detachments are disclosed. The food display can include food display posts and a friction hinge attached to at least one of the food display posts. A panel can be coupled to the friction hinge to act as a sneeze or breath guard, where the panel is capable of rotating about the friction hinge when a predetermined amount of force is applied to the panel.

Claim (Index 12):
A method, comprising:\n providing a food display, wherein the food display comprises:\n a plurality of food display posts; \n a friction hinge attached to at least one of the plurality of posts, the friction hinge comprising a first slide rod bushing and a second slide rod bushing positioned on opposing ends of a circular interior portion of a hinge housing of the friction hinge; \n a slide rod configured to support a panel, the slide rod being disposed in the first slide rod bushing and the second slide rod bushing; \n a first panel standoff positioned at a first distal end of the slide rod; \n a second panel standoff positioned at a second distal end of the slide rod; \n the panel, the panel having a first aperture for the first panel standoff and a second aperture for the second panel standoff, wherein a distance from the first aperture and the second aperture is substantially similar to a length of the slide rod; \n a first panel cap configured to secure a first portion of the panel to the first panel standoff; and \n a second panel cap configured to secure a second portion of the panel to the second panel standoff; \n wherein the panel is capable of rotating about the friction hinge when a predetermined amount of force is applied to the panel that induces a predetermined amount of torque in the friction hinge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74074
- Patent Class: 312.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15069274', '15341088', '15646748', '12625668', '14677232']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7934056370655543
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4670781912979915
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7607728924887981
- Mean Citation Score: 146.073692
- Max Citation Score: 156.54928999999996
- Similarity Product: 114.14899677405772

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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