PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884348
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["428", "035700"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is an apparatus for protecting a surface including a substrate configured to receive fluid and a layer disposed on the substrate configured to retain or pass fluid thereto and discourage fluid flow therefrom. The substrate has a leading edge with a recess that complements a portion of a tire footprint; defines a semicircle, defines a U-shape; or combinations thereof.

Claim (Index 6):
Apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein said layer has opened and closed channels sized and configured to one or both of:\n deter flow of large fluid volumes; and retain fluid due to capillary action.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41304
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10811117', '14701014', '11478593', '11604324', '11767526']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8813101567006244
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4638282304664041
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8395619640772024
- Mean Citation Score: 80.939548
- Max Citation Score: 89.48364000000002
- Similarity Product: 60.89455847156525

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