PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927888
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["280", "507000"]

Abstract:
A safety device for attachment to a ball mount of a trailer hitch is provided, the safety device comprising: a tower, the tower including a housing, the housing including a front, a back and a central aperture; a tongue, the tongue slidably mounted in the housing normal to the tower and including a distal end, a proximal end, an underside, a top and at least two tongue apertures, the tongue apertures extending between the underside and the top; and a pin, the pin releasably retained in the central aperture and one tongue aperture to releasably retain the retention tongue in a position. A combination for retaining a trailer socket and a trailer hitch assembly are also provided. A method of releasably retaining a trailer on a trailer hitch is further provided.

Claim (Index 1):
A safety device for attachment to a ball mount of a trailer hitch, the safety device comprising: at least one tower, the tower including a housing, the housing including a front, a back and a central aperture; a tongue, the tongue slidably mounted in the housing normal to the tower and including a distal end, a proximal end, an underside, a top and at least one tongue aperture, the tongue aperture extending between the underside and the top; and a pin, the pin releasably retained in the central aperture and the at least one tongue aperture to releasably retain the retention tongue in an operational position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40984
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11975294', '14639955', '10615315', '15056932', '15439436']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7992300908002926
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5008469226585943
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7693917739861228
- Mean Citation Score: 237.99310800000003
- Max Citation Score: 253.782
- Similarity Product: 193.3747655496597

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

Dataset: test