PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16503950
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["296", "180400"]

Abstract:
There is provided a method of securing a strut portion to an I-beam of a vehicle, the securing mechanism comprising a pair of opposed clamps, each including a gripping portion, a securing portion, an abutting portion and a fastener adapted to apply tension on the clamps toward each other for moving the clamps toward each other and compress the strut portion to the I-beam.

Claim (Index 12):
A method for securing a strut portion to a vehicle's floor portion with a securing mechanism, the method comprising:\n positioning in opposition a pair of clamps of the securing mechanism adapted to be latched together along a vertical symmetry axis thereof to secure the strut portion to the vehicle's floor portion; inserting the skirt portion within a pair of opposed gripping portions of the pair of clamps, between a pair of inclined portions thereof and a pair of opposed second contacting portions of the gripping portions; inserting the vehicle's floor portion within the opposed pair of gripping portions, between the pair of inclined portions thereof and the strut portion; assembling a fastener with a securing portion connected to the gripping portion; and fastening the fastener to proximally move the pair of clamps toward each other, wherein moving the pair of clamps toward each other is simultaneously sliding the pair of inclined portions on the vehicle's floor portion and is pressing the strut portion between the vehicle's floor portion and the second contacting portion with a combined movement of the clamps toward the vehicle's floor portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91667
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15471696', '15257571', '12647004', '12360038', '13078982']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8431916025165782
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5646472581011449
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.815337168075035
- Mean Citation Score: 280.643186
- Max Citation Score: 370.92648
- Similarity Product: 287.1481409969044

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

Dataset: test