PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16425504
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["273", "400000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for playing a game includes a plurality of channels, each of the plurality of channels configured to hold and display a column of spherical game-pieces, each of the plurality of channels having an upper end and a lower end, each upper end configured to individually receive at least one of the spherical game-pieces, each lower end configured to support a respective column of spherical game-pieces by preventing passage of a bottom game-piece from a respective channel; a funnel affixed to the plurality of channels and configured to receive a thrown spherical game-piece and to direct the thrown spherical game-piece into the upper end of one of the plurality of channels; and a base stand operably connected to the plurality of channels and configured to rest upon a horizontal surface and to retain the plurality of channels at an acute angle relative to the horizontal surface.

Claim (Index 15):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein each lower end of the plurality of channels has a closed mode and an open mode and is further configured to release its respective column by transitioning from the closed mode to the open mode, permitting passage of its respective column.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61017
- Patent Class: 273.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14322413', '15073814', '15262839', '12254694', '12323758']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5261966341035903
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5126437355886361
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5248413442520949
- Mean Citation Score: 180.584228
- Max Citation Score: 196.53285
- Similarity Product: 112.38495606020092

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

Dataset: test