PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16449570
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["052", "557000"]

Abstract:
Herein disclosed is an asphalt roofing shingle, adapted to be laid up in courses on a roof, comprising an upper headlap portion, a lower tab portion, vertically spaced apart upper and lower edges, laterally spaced apart right and left edges and top and bottom surfaces. The bottom surface is configured to be laid up on a roof facing the roof and the tab portion of the top surface is configured to be substantially weather-exposed when laid up on a roof. The upper headlap portion is configured to be substantially covered by the tab portion of roofing elements in a next-overlying course of roofing elements when laid up on a roof. The upper headlap portion further comprises a plurality of parallel, evenly laterally spaced, first markings, the first markings being useful, at least, for aligning adjacent shingles, cutting books of shingles, forming starter shingles from full shingles and forming a grid of shingles without external measuring devices.

Claim (Index 19):
An asphalt shingle designed to be laid up in courses on a roof comprising:\n an upper headlap portion, a lower tab portion, vertically spaced apart upper and lower edges, laterally spaced apart right and left edges, and top and bottom surfaces, having a lateral dimension or width and a vertical dimension or height; at least one adhesive strip disposed across the width of the shingle on the top surface thereof; and a horizontally-oriented marking that extends along an interface between said upper headlap portion and said lower tab portion of said shingle and stretches from said right to left edge thereof, spanning the width of the shingle, wherein the lateral dimension of the shingle is greater than the vertical dimension of the shingle, wherein said bottom surface is configured to be laid up on a roof facing the roof, wherein said tab portion is configured to be substantially weather-exposed when laid up on a roof and wherein said upper headlap portion is configured to be substantially covered by the tab portion of asphalt shingles in a next-overlying course of asphalt shingles when laid up on a roof, wherein the shingle is a three-tab shingle, and wherein said horizontally-oriented marking is configured to act as a headlap alignment mark and run perpendicularly to the rake of the roof following installation of the shingle thereon, defining the position on which the upper edge of an asphalt shingle in a previous course of asphalt shingles should abut to establish proper headlap.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26316
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16030084', '15365201', '14626436', '10358698', '13155736']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8729708262210305
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6517603451557318
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8508497781145007
- Mean Citation Score: 533.5551720000002
- Max Citation Score: 674.86096
- Similarity Product: 610.2608600647068

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

Dataset: test