PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16268413
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["473", "564000"]

Abstract:
A method of making a ball bat may include forming a bat frame with a handle and an inner barrel structure, providing spacer elements extending radially outwardly from the inner barrel structure, and forming a barrel shell having a main barrel and a tapered section. An inner diameter in the tapered section may be equal to an outer diameter of a first one of the spacer elements. The method may include mechanically locking the barrel shell to the bat frame by passing the handle through the barrel shell and moving the barrel shell toward the inner barrel structure until the barrel shell contacts the first one of the spacer elements. A gap is maintained between an outer diameter of the inner barrel structure and the barrel shell. The barrel shell may deflect during a hit to create a trampoline effect, while the inner barrel structure limits the deflection.

Claim (Index 7):
The ball bat of  claim 1  further comprising at least a third spacer element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15894365', '15815423', '12884337', '12884344', '14041604']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6613233872715893
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5398103246666498
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6491720810110954
- Mean Citation Score: 285.564214
- Max Citation Score: 423.02618
- Similarity Product: 309.5399566842044

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

Dataset: test