PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16001621
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["280", "163000"]

Abstract:
A motor vehicle side step has a running board with a slot in its back side through which bolts extend to clamp an insert and a base of a vehicle mounting bracket to the running board. A tubular top frame extends around the outer side of top step plate and has opposing ends fastened to the running board with the top step plate fastened to the running board and top frame member to form a top step. A second step support frame has two connector plates that bolt to a bottom side of the running board through slots in that bottom side. The second step support frame extends outward and downward from the connector plates to provide a lower support to which a lower step plate is fastened to form a lower step. A top step support extends upward from the second step support frame and connects to the bottom of the top step plate.

Claim (Index 19):
The side step of  claim 18 ,\n a lower step support frame having first and second connector plates each connected to the bottom of the running board by threaded fasteners passing through the bottom slots in the running board; a lower step support frame having first and second proximal ends connected to the first and second connector plates, respectively, each proximal end connected to an opposing end of a bottom step support located a predetermined distance outward from the and below the connector plates during use; a lower, horizontal step plate connected to the lower step support; and first and second top step supports connected to the first and second proximal ends, respectively, and located above the connector plates during use, in a generally horizontal plane, each of the first and second step supports connected to a bottom of the top step plate; wherein threaded fasteners pass through different ones of the first fastener holes in the top step plate connect the first and second top step supports to the top step plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71186
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15795743', '10115588', '15266106', '11214365', '15303263']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8320430428425808
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5408295342743538
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8029216919857581
- Mean Citation Score: 222.735442
- Max Citation Score: 387.09665
- Similarity Product: 363.59951443928185

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