PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875598
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["074", "422000"]

Abstract:
A rack and pinion assembly for a vehicle steering assembly includes a pinion shaft having a splined region comprising a plurality of splines extending longitudinally in an axial direction of the pinion shaft. The rack and pinion assembly also includes an axial retention feature integrally formed on the splined region to axially retain a component matable with the pinion shaft.

Claim (Index 7):
The rack and pinion assembly of  claim 1 , wherein the axial retention feature extends axially from a first end to a second end, the first end located at an end of the splined region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58974
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11059997', '13386429', '15404550', '10408410', '15118745']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8110206494303468
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4385092216808165
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7737695066553938
- Mean Citation Score: 157.01237799999996
- Max Citation Score: 165.7645
- Similarity Product: 123.68549074766035

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