PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16084708
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["052", "298000"]

Abstract:
A steel cap  7  for structurally connecting together a new foundation and an existing tower is disclosed. The new foundation includes at least one foundation element  9  positioned in the ground. The existing tower includes an existing foundation  5  and a tower structure  3  extending from and supported by the existing foundation. The steel cap comprises (a) a first element  11  for connecting the cap to the new foundation element or foundation elements and (b) a second element  13  for connecting the cap to the existing tower and thereby, in use, connecting together the new foundation and the existing tower.

Claim (Index 36):
A method of renovating an existing tower that comprises (a) driving/embedding/forming or otherwise positioning a plurality of new foundation elements in the ground in a required array around an existing tower and thereby forming a new foundation of the tower, positioning the steel cap defined in  claim 20  so that the new foundation elements extend through the openings in the first element of the steel cap with the second element extending from the first element and contacting the existing tower, connecting the first element to the new foundation elements, and connecting the second element to the existing tower.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13788458', '15155944', '13435527', '14267397', '14257530']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8317837333702656
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4982287730510298
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.798428237338342
- Mean Citation Score: 224.33668
- Max Citation Score: 232.51979
- Similarity Product: 155.84458721114456

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

Dataset: test