PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16238120
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["052", "702000"]

Abstract:
A deck board support bracket includes a drainage channel in a top surface of the bracket and deck boards are secured in an end to end manner with a space between two deck board ends centered over the drainage channel. Water presented on the deck surface at two deck board ends passes therebetween and to one side of a supporting joist. The deck board support bracket can be used with various deck board fastening arrangements and preferably is made of an injection molded plastic material.

Claim (Index 15):
A deck support bracket comprising a generally planar back member for mounting to a joist, a top mount member separated from and spaced outwardly of said back member generally at an upper edge of said back member, at least two gusset supports joining said top mount member to said back member and cooperating therewith to define an elongate flow through drainage port located at an edge of said back member facing said top mount member, said elongate drainage port cooperating with and separating said top mount member from said back member a sufficient distance to pass water freely through said drainage port past said top mount member and to said one side of said back member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62963
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15459779', '11162054', '14199113', '12863217', '14523096']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.818616578435417
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.536334990818622
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7903884196737375
- Mean Citation Score: 264.684366
- Max Citation Score: 395.7016
- Similarity Product: 270.40975099897383

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

Dataset: test