PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903476
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["124", "025000"]

Abstract:
A bracket may be adjustable with respect to a bracket engagement device and serve as both a stirrup and a shooting rest for a crossbow. One or more biasing force generators may be used to bias the bracket into one of at least two relative positions with respect to the bracket engagement device.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for using a combination crossbow stirrup and shooting rest mechanism with an associated crossbow having a main beam and a bow assembly supported to the main beam; the method comprising the steps of:\n A) providing a combination crossbow stirrup and shooting rest mechanism comprising: a bracket having a connection surface and first and second distinct contact surfaces; a bracket engagement device that is supportable to the main beam and that comprises first and second distinct connection surfaces; and one or more biasing force generators; B) providing the combination crossbow stirrup and shooting rest mechanism to be operable to perform the following steps when the bracket engagement device is supported to the associated crossbow:\n 1) manually rotating the bracket with respect to the bracket engagement device into a cocking position where the connection surface of the bracket is interconnected with the first connection surface of the bracket engagement device and the bracket is positioned to enable a user to use the combination crossbow stirrup and shooting rest mechanism as a stirrup to cock the associated bow assembly with the first contact surface receiving the user's foot and the second contact surface contacting a ground or other cocking support surface; \n 2) automatically applying a biasing force from the one or more biasing force generators to bias the bracket into the cocking position; \n 3) manually overcoming the biasing force that biases the bracket into the cocking position; \n 4) manually rotating the bracket with respect to the bracket engagement device into a shooting rest position where the connection surface of the bracket is interconnected with the second connection surface of the bracket engagement device and the bracket is positioned to enable a user to use the combination crossbow stirrup and shooting rest mechanism as a shooting rest to shoot the associated crossbow with the second contact surface contacting a ground or other shooting support surface; and \n 5) automatically applying a biasing force from the one or more biasing force generators to bias the bracket into the shooting rest position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.44737
- Patent Class: 124.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15409257', '14937403', '15838561', '11948319', '14313764']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7173218696002787
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4874347505047033
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6943331576907212
- Mean Citation Score: 274.26263400000005
- Max Citation Score: 279.56015
- Similarity Product: 230.1538243454605

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

Dataset: test