PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903887
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["473", "417000"]

Abstract:
According to one example, a batting tee system includes a housing, an arm coupled to the housing, and an actuation system. The actuation system includes a spool, a rollable neck, and an actuator. The rollable neck is configured to be wound around the spool when the spool rotates in a first direction and is further configured to be unwound from the spool when the spool rotates in a second direction. The rollable neck is configured to have a flat form when wound around the spool and is further configured to transition from the flat form to a hollow tube form when unwound from the spool. The actuator is configured to rotate the spool. The actuation system is configured to extend and retract the distal end of the rollable neck out of the arm. The distal end of the rollable neck is configured to hold a ball.

Claim (Index 1):
A batting tee system, comprising:\n a housing; an arm coupled to the housing and configured to move from a horizontal position to a vertical position; an actuation system comprising:\n a spool positioned within the arm and configured to rotate; \n a rollable neck having a proximal end coupled to the spool and further having a distal end, wherein the rollable neck is configured to be wound around the spool when the spool rotates in a first direction and is further configured to be unwound from the spool when the spool rotates in a second direction, wherein the rollable neck is configured to have a flat form when wound around the spool and is further configured to transition from the flat form to a hollow tube form when unwound from the spool; and \n an actuator coupled to the spool and configured to rotate the spool in the first and second directions, wherein the actuation system is configured to extend and retract the distal end of the rollable neck out of the arm along a vertical axis, wherein, when the distal end of the rollable neck extends out of the arm along the vertical axis, the distal end is configured to hold a ball; and \n a control system coupled to the actuation system and configured to cause the actuation system to extend or retract the distal end of the rollable neck to a first random position out of the arm and along the vertical axis, wherein the control system is further configured to cause the actuation system to extend or retract the distal end of the rollable neck from the first random position to a second different and random position out of the arm and along the vertical axis, after the ball is hit from the distal end of the rollable neck when the distal end is in the first random position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.03846
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15244057', '13068765', '12964632', '12634546', '14209440']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.559072647836304
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5074475352109503
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5539101365737686
- Mean Citation Score: 174.70644
- Max Citation Score: 253.41916
- Similarity Product: 174.34081760254142

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