PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862388
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["004", "633000"]

Abstract:
A seamless undermount sink system includes a countertop having a sink mounting aperture disposed therethrough. The system also includes a sink having a sidewall with a rimless upper edge therearound. A mounting assembly includes a mounting bracket attached to a portion of the sink and a mounting gasket which is secured to a bottom surface of the countertop. An interface is formed between the rimless upper edge of the sink and the sink mounting aperture through the countertop. A sealant is disposed in the interface between the rimless upper edge of the sink and the sink mounting aperture though the countertop to prevent water, food, or other debris from getting in between the sink and the countertop.

Claim (Index 16):
A method for installation of a sink through a bottom surface of a countertop, the method comprising:\n fabricating the sink with a rimless upper edge, attaching a mounting bracket to the sink at a predetermined mounting depth below the rimless upper edge, the mounting bracket having a mounting flange with a plurality of mounting flange apertures formed therethrough, positioning a mounting gasket having a gasket aperture formed therethrough on a countertop, inscribing an outline of a sink mounting aperture on the countertop along the gasket aperture, forming a sink mounting aperture through the countertop, aligning the gasket aperture with the sink mounting aperture along the bottom surface of the countertop, securing the mounting gasket to the bottom of the countertop around the sink mounting aperture, connecting each of a plurality of mount members to a different one of a plurality of mount member interconnects in the mounting gasket, aligning each of the plurality of mounting flange apertures with a different one of the plurality of mounting members, positioning the rimless upper edge of the sink through the gasket aperture and the sink mounting aperture, and securing the sink in an installed orientation via the mounting flange and each of a plurality of fasteners engaging a different one of the plurality of mount members.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33962
- Patent Class: 4.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15631136', '14465337', '14829734', '11953047', '14142302']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8331707472177828
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.60010242722135
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8098639152181395
- Mean Citation Score: 483.097258
- Max Citation Score: 582.9021
- Similarity Product: 428.74366027160886

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