PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16141247
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["052", "514000"]

Abstract:
The disclosed technology includes utility pole repair plates for repairing a pole, such as a utility pole. One or more utility pole repair plates may be attached to a utility pole in an interconnected fashion to cover a portion or the entire circumference of a utility pole. A utility pole repair plate may include multiple substantially planar interconnected plate segments disposed at angles designed to accommodate a particular pole geometry.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of repairing a pole comprising:\n placing a first repair plate substantially flush against a pole, the first repair plate including:\n a first substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate; \n a second substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate connected to the first substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate at a shoulder, the shoulder including a joint indentation at one or more of the top edge or bottom edge of the shoulder, the first substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate disposed at a first angle from the second substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate; \n a third substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate connected to the second substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate at a second angle; \n a fourth substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate connected to the third substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate, the fourth substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate disposed in a substantially parallel direction to the second planer plate segment of the first repair plate and offset from the second substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate by an offset distance; and \n wherein the first substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate is positioned flush against a first side of the pole, the second substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate is positioned flush against a second side of the pole, wherein the second side of the pole is adjacent to the first side of the pole; placing a second repair plate substantially flush against the pole, wherein the second repair plate is placed adjacent to the first repair plate, such that:\n a first substantially planar plate segment of the second repair plate is positioned flush against the second side of the pole; \n a second substantially planar plate segment of the second repair plate is positioned flush against a third side of the pole, wherein the third side of the pole is adjacent to the second side of the pole; and \n an end of the first substantially planar plate segment of the second repair plate is received by the gap formed between the fourth substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate and the surface of the second side of the pole; \n affixing the first substantially planar plate segment of the second repair plate to the fourth substantially planar plate segment of the first repair plate; affixing the first and second substantially planar plate segments of the first repair plate to the first and second sides of the pole, respectively, at least in part by welding an inner edge of the joint indentation to the pole; and affixing the first and second substantially planar plate segments of the second repair plate to the second and third sides of the pole, respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6087
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15476402', '15059969', '14663391', '16133767', '15149101']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7778078630113144
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6097285384379174
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7609999305539747
- Mean Citation Score: 292.6511440000001
- Max Citation Score: 524.49146
- Similarity Product: 511.9281802199256

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

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