PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174645
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["052", "173300"]

Abstract:
A non-slip roof attachment system for attaching structures to residential and commercial roofs without the use of penetrations to roofing shingles and sealing layers is described. The non-slip attachment system may be used to attach roof mounted systems such as solar panels. The non-slip attachment system also allows for the quick removal of such roof mounted systems rapidly and without the need for repair of penetrations. The non-slip attachment system uses, among other things, an array-stay retainer comprising a vertical member and a horizontal member. The horizontal member comprises a spiral.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for reversibly attaching items to a roofing system, the method comprising:\n placing a first spiral array-stay retainer attachment upon a roof, wherein a lateral member of the first spiral array-stay retainer attachment comprises a spiral-shaped bar and is positioned underneath at least a first installed roofing shingle and a second installed roofing shingle, and a vertical member of the first spiral array-stay retainer attachment protrudes through a seam between the first roofing shingle and the second roofing shingle, and wherein the seam lies between an edge of the first roofing shingle and an edge of the second roofing shingle and said vertical member; placing a second spiral array-stay retainer attachment upon the roof, wherein a lateral member of the second spiral array-stay retainer attachment is positioned underneath at least a third roofing shingle and a vertical member of the second spiral array-stay retainer attachment protrudes through a seam between the third roofing shingle and a fourth roofing shingle, and wherein the seam lies between an edge of the third roofing shingle and an edge of the fourth roofing shingle; placing a first half split-beam upon the roof, wherein the first half split-beam has a first pre-drilled hole, and wherein the first pre-drilled hole aligns with a hole in the spiral first array-stay retainer attachment; placing a second half split-beam upon the roof roughly parallel with the first half split-beam, wherein the second half split-beam has a second pre-drilled hole, and wherein the second pre-drilled hole aligns with a hole in the second spiral array-stay retainer attachment; placing a fastener into the hole in the first spiral array-stay retainer attachment and through a hole in the first half split-beam; attaching a slotted-rail attachment clip to at least the first half split-beam; and attaching a support member to the slotted rail attachment clip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68966
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15394487', '13183230', '14075774', '14116637', '12590346']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8130143418210851
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5849650333514642
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7902094109741231
- Mean Citation Score: 261.085086
- Max Citation Score: 495.77048
- Similarity Product: 461.3790435579586

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