PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939794
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["280", "655100"]

Abstract:
A patient transport apparatus comprises a support structure. The support structure comprises a base, a frame, and a patient support surface to support a patient. One or more handle assemblies are coupled to the frame to maneuver the patient transport apparatus. The handle assemblies comprise one or more handles to be manipulated by a user. The handles are capable of being adjusted to facilitate maneuvering of the patient transport apparatus, such as pushing/pulling the patient transport apparatus along a floor surface, lifting the patient transport apparatus over obstacles, loading the patient transport apparatus into an emergency vehicle, and/or unloading the patient transport apparatus from the emergency vehicle.

Claim (Index 6):
The patient transport apparatus of  claim 5 , wherein said handle extension is configured to slide along a translation axis from said stowed position to said extended position and to rotate about said translation axis relative to said frame to a first rotational position, a second rotational position, or a third rotational position, said locking device comprising one or more rotational locking elements configured to discretely lock said handle extension relative to said frame in each of said first, second, and third rotational positions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18519
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15261237', '11560335', '13686412', '13686349', '13686011']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8316834551640503
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4939610836289695
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7979112180105422
- Mean Citation Score: 208.625818
- Max Citation Score: 218.03445
- Similarity Product: 152.91803990081547

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

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