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 8):
The article of apparel according to  claim 1 , wherein the spool is configured to change the filament from the second configuration back to the first configuration in response to a second input.

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): 0.6685303104374206
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5432979447706066
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6560070738707392
- Mean Citation Score: 221.418432
- Max Citation Score: 424.8946
- Similarity Product: 317.3896726055145

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