PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958487
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["124", "078000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for launching a ball is disclosed. An embodiment of the apparatus includes a ball launching unit including a port for ejecting a ball and a support for supporting the ball launching unit. The ball launching unit is pivotably coupled to the support to permit angular adjustment of the ball launching unit about a horizontal axis of rotation to vary a launch angle of an ejected ball, and wherein the horizontal axis of rotation intersects the port.

Claim (Index 8):
The apparatus of  claim 1  further including a hopper for storing one or more balls for feeding to the ball launching unit and wherein during rotation of the ball launching unit about the horizontal axis of rotation, the orientation of the hopper relative to the ball launching unit remains fixed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10256
- Patent Class: 124.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16320741', '10887014', '11083733', '10973395', '14562671']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7177602281903998
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4757490414728514
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.693559109518645
- Mean Citation Score: 202.18174
- Max Citation Score: 207.89604
- Similarity Product: 148.781388009696

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