PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15963176
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["297", "452340"]

Abstract:
A seat for an automotive vehicle includes a seat bottom and a seat back. The seat bottom includes a first frame and a seating surface, and the seat back includes a second frame. A first attachment mechanism is configured to secure the first frame of the seat bottom to the automotive vehicle. The seat back includes an upper portion, and a lower portion, and a middle portion between the upper portion and the lower portion. A second attachment mechanism is configured to connect the seat back and the seat bottom. The seat bottom and seat back being configured such that a lateral width of the upper portion of the seat back is greater than a lateral width of the lower portion of the seat back, a lateral width of the seat bottom is greater than the lateral width of the lower portion of the seat back, and a gap is located between the upper portion of the seat back and a rear portion of the seat bottom at a right side and/or a left side of the seat back.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of assembling a seat for an automotive vehicle, comprising\n providing a seat bottom, the seat bottom comprising a first frame and a seating surface supported by the first frame, the seating surface configured to support an occupant of an automotive vehicle, the seat bottom including a first attachment mechanism configured to secure the first frame of the seat bottom to an automotive vehicle; providing a seat back, the seat back comprising a second frame, the seat back having, above a level at which the seat back meets the seating surface of the seat bottom, an upper portion, and a lower portion, and a middle portion between the upper portion and the lower portion, the upper portion, middle portion and lower portion of the seat back being supported by the second frame; and attaching the seat back to the seat bottom with a second attachment mechanism configured to connect the seat back and the seat bottom, the seat bottom and seat back being configured such that\n a lateral width of the upper portion of the seat back is greater than a lateral width of the lower portion of the seat back, \n a lateral width of the upper portion of the seat back is greater than a lateral width of the middle portion of the seat back, \n a lateral width of the middle portion of the seat back is greater than a lateral width of the lower portion of the seat back \n a lateral width of the seat bottom is greater than the lateral width of the lower portion of the seat back, and \n a gap is located between the upper portion of the seat back and a rear portion of the seat bottom at one or both of a right side of the seat back and a left side of the seat back.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.95833
- Patent Class: 297.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15005080', '14916379', '13070915', '10975849', '10822679']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.792827861081834
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.456611683571126
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7592062433307633
- Mean Citation Score: 197.596522
- Max Citation Score: 207.79326
- Similarity Product: 162.4923487389672

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

Dataset: test