PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877151
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["002", "461000"]

Abstract:
An article of apparel includes a padding system that dynamically changes configuration in response to an impending impact. The padding system may change from a state that has a high flexibility and offers low protection from impact to a state that has a low flexibility and offers increase protection from impact. The system may use a filament to constrict a plurality of padding elements together in order to increase the overall stiffness of the pad. The filament may be tightened and loosened by a spool. The spool may receive a signal regarding the impending impact from a sensor that is a part of the article of apparel, or a sensor that is separate from it.

Claim (Index 15):
An athletic equipment system comprising:\n an article of apparel including a dynamic padding system including a plurality of padding elements fixedly mounted on a base layer; a filament surrounding two or more of the padding elements; a spool, a portion of the filament being wound around the spool, the spool being configured to receive an input originating from the sensor, wherein the spool is configured to reversibly change the filament from a first configuration to a second configuration upon receiving the input originating from the sensor; and a sensor configured to sense the position and velocity of a user wearing the article of apparel, sense the position and velocity of a target, compare the position and velocity of the user with the position and velocity of the target to determine whether the user and the target will impact, and transmit a signal to the dynamic padding system; wherein the two or more padding elements which are surrounded by the filament have a first distance between them when the filament is in the first configuration, and have a second distance between them when the filament is in the second configuration, where the second distance is less than the first distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08621
- Patent Class: 2.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14258613', '13848891', '12566025', '12240408', '13111461']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6416736559302056
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5410281764471926
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6316091079819044
- Mean Citation Score: 221.418432
- Max Citation Score: 424.8946
- Similarity Product: 317.5120463478088

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