PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877151
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["002", "461000"]

Abstract:
An article of apparel includes a padding system that dynamically changes configuration in response to an impending impact. The padding system may change from a state that has a high flexibility and offers low protection from impact to a state that has a low flexibility and offers increase protection from impact. The system may use a filament to constrict a plurality of padding elements together in order to increase the overall stiffness of the pad. The filament may be tightened and loosened by a spool. The spool may receive a signal regarding the impending impact from a sensor that is a part of the article of apparel, or a sensor that is separate from it.

Claim (Index 7):
The article of apparel according to  claim 1 , wherein, when the filament is in the second configuration, the padding elements are in direct contact, such that the two or more padding elements surrounded by the filament are adjacent to each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08621
- Patent Class: 2.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14258613', '13848891', '12566025', '12240408', '13111461']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6681036001309074
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5441458118361363
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6557078213014303
- Mean Citation Score: 221.418432
- Max Citation Score: 424.8946
- Similarity Product: 326.208939528966

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

Dataset: test