PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15771698
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["280", "618000"]

Abstract:
A linkage binding for coupling a user's shoed or booted foot to another object, such as a ski or snowshoe. The linkage binding may include an upper plate including an upper surface to which a user's shoed or booted foot is to be secured, a lower plate including a lower surface to which another object is to be secured, a front connecting link hingedly attached to both the upper plate and the lower plate, and a rear connecting link hingedly attached to both the upper plate and the lower plate to form a 4-bar linkage.

Claim (Index 37):
A linkage binding configured as an insert between a downhill ski binding and a downhill ski boot of a downhill skiing system, the insert adapting the downhill skiing system for uphill travel by allowing the downhill ski boot to hinge upward from the toe while in the downhill ski binding of the downhill skiing system, the linkage binding comprising:\n an upper plate including an upper surface to which a user's shoed or booted foot is to be secured, the upper plate including a selectively engagable heel binding at one end and a selectively engagable toe binding at another end for binding the user's shoed or booted foot to the upper plate; a lower plate including a lower surface to which another object is to be secured, the lower plate including a selectively engageable heel binding at one end and a selectively engagable toe binding at another end for binding the lower plate to heel and toe bindings of the object to be secured to the lower plate; a front connecting link hingedly attached to both the upper plate and the lower plate; a rear connecting link hingedly attached to both the upper plate and the lower plate at locations that are rearward relative to the front connecting link; during use, the upper plate and front and rear connecting links being configured to selectively allow the upper plate to rotate with and follow the user's shoed or booted foot as a user performs a walking motion while the lower plate remains substantially stationary relative to the object secured to the lower plate, so that the front and rear connecting links accommodate rotation of a heel end of the upper plate upwards away from the lower plate as the user raises a foot during the walking motion, and so that the front and rear connecting links accommodate rotation of the heel end of the upper plate downwards towards the lower plate as the user lowers the foot during the walking motion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28889
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14605696', '12919241', '12483152', '11509696', '12716136']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8383747148749702
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4948944337685635
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8040266867643295
- Mean Citation Score: 266.21952400000004
- Max Citation Score: 274.68945
- Similarity Product: 227.06516372464296

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