PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16107251
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["108", "147190"]

Abstract:
A desk within a work surface or table such that the desk can be raised and lowered to any desired position in relation to the work surface using an actuator that controls the use of telescoping legs or rods. During the process of returning the desk back to its original flush, or in horizontal seamless alignment with, the rest of the work surface, a knee action safety device co-acts, or in combination, with a gas spring is used for controlling the lowering of the desk and creating a virtually weightless of desk during final descent; thus, eliminating the possibility of a person's limb or hand being crushed or severely injured, even if these are providing obstruction

Claim (Index 1):
A method for raising and lowering a desk in relation to a work surface, comprising the steps of:\n providing the desk in close proximity to the work surface; defining the desk in horizontal alignment in relation to the work surface as an original position; raising the desk from the original position to a raised position that is separated from the work surface; lowering the desk from the raised position back to the original position using the following steps; (a) retracting an actuating arm and allowing the weight of the desk to cause the desk to begin lowering; (b) defining a final descent distance measured between the desk and the work surface; (c) during the lowering, engaging a gas spring to the desk at the final descent distance, (d) if an obstruction is encountered between the desk and the work surface causing resistance against the lowering of the desk, performing the following additional steps:\n (i) continuing to retract the actuating arm and separating the actuating arm from the desk; \n (ii) supporting the desk with the gas spring and limiting the weight of the desk engaging the obstruction to prevent damage to the obstruction; \n (iii) lifting the desk to allow removal of the obstruction; \n (iv) allowing the weight of the desk to continue to lower until the desk is back in the original position in relation to the work surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53659
- Patent Class: 108.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13946004', '15808600', '14883010', '15439366', '15680994']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6776421943049671
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5084712822780497
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6607251031022754
- Mean Citation Score: 170.34011399999997
- Max Citation Score: 192.40036
- Similarity Product: 122.835927775116

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

Dataset: test