PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877378
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["361", "749000"]

Abstract:
Elastic electrical connectors that may be incorporated into a garment to connect multiple electrical components in the garment. These electrical connectors are typically long strips of fabric substrate to which wires are attached along a length of one side in a sinusoidal or zig-zag pattern. The connector may also include an adhesive coating on one side to secure it to a fabric. The wires are electrically insulated, which may be a thermoremoable insulation (e.g., a polyurethane having a melting point of <400° C.). The wires may be attached to the surface of the fabric strip by a stitch at each peak and trough of the sinusoidal or zig-zag pattern with a length between peak and trough stitches between about 1 mm and 15 mm.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of forming an elastic electrical connector that may be applied to a garment to connect multiple electrical components of the garment, the method comprising:\n attaching an elongate bundle of wires to a first surface of an elongate strip of fabric in a sinusoidal or zig-zag pattern comprising alternating peaks and troughs, wherein the wires are each electrically insulated, and wherein the bundle is attached to the first surface by at least one stitch at each peak and trough of the sinusoidal or zig-zag pattern, wherein the length between peak and trough stitches is between about 1 mm and 15 mm; applying an adhesive coating the first side; and covering the adhesive coating with a removable backing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74026
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14644180', '14612060', '14331142', '15813073', '15324152']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8561072566070337
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.528999714199205
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8233965023662508
- Mean Citation Score: 290.632014
- Max Citation Score: 361.03262
- Similarity Product: 254.46663977535488

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

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