PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15915277
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["015", "246000"]

Abstract:
A device for removing obstructions impeding movement of a piece of equipment is disclosed. The device includes a sweep housing securely holding at least part of a rectangular sweep. A bristle portion of the sweep extends downward and away from the sweep housing, and includes a plurality of bristles. The sweep housing is made up of an inside bracket, which mounts to the surgical table by an adhesive strip or other means, and an outside bracket which comprises a thumbscrew or other locking mechanisms for securing the sweep housing and sweep in a fixed position with respect to each other. When an operator mounts the device, obstructions are pushed away from castors on the base of the surgical table by the one or more bristles.

Claim (Index 10):
The obstacle clearing device of  claim 1  further comprising a locking mechanism connected to the sweep housing that secures the sweep with respect to the sweep housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86111
- Patent Class: 15.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11083594', '12876334', '10768363', '12319309', '11544136']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7799123748429744
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4728286653560463
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7492040038942817
- Mean Citation Score: 115.840383
- Max Citation Score: 118.87492
- Similarity Product: 66.16701033295631

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