PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058456
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["280", "438100"]

Abstract:
A fifth wheel hitch is adapted to affix to a vehicle having a vehicle-mounted ball that protrudes from towing vehicle surface. The hitch has a frame with a sleeve portion that is fixed with respect to the frame and a receiver is telescopingly received inside the sleeve portion. The receiver is selectively affixed to the frame with a pin that extends through the receiver and sleeve portion. A ball cage affixes to the vehicle-mounted ball using pins that extend through vertical walls in the cage. The cage includes a threaded fastener that extends outwardly. The frame has an elongate aperture that receives the threaded fastener to secure the ball cage with a nut into a cage pocket. An optional lock overlays the nut with a nut locking aperture that prevents the nut from rotating.

Claim (Index 7):
The single point hitch in  claim 6 , wherein said threaded fastener has a lock aperture, said single point hitch further comprising a cage lock having nut locking aperture for receiving a nut engaging said threaded fastener, when said nut is received in said nut locking aperture, rotation of said nut is constrained with respect to said cage lock, said cage lock further comprising a tube having tube apertures, said tube apertures alignable with said lock aperture to receive a lock.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16923
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15205508', '12148112', '14616052', '12580797', '15851859']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8440018637429801
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5269408888692451
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8122957662556066
- Mean Citation Score: 306.325844
- Max Citation Score: 359.06274
- Similarity Product: 252.6797503115129

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