PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15985401
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["224", "521000"]

Abstract:
Channel shaped receiver with side walls formed with through bores.

Claim (Index 12):
A hitch coupler apparatus for mounting a carrier and comprising:\n a tubular trailer hitch mounted to a vehicle, formed with a tunnel having a rearward opening and including opposite planer side walls formed with hitch openings; a receiver formed to be received slidably in the tunnel of the tubular hitch to a locking position to support the carrier; the receiver including opposite walls formed with receiver openings to be, when the receiver is received slidably in the hitch, registered with the respective hitch openings; the receiver further including a pair of elongated leaf springs having respective mounting extremities mounted to the interior surfaces of the respective opposite walls and having respective free extremities mounting respective outwardly projecting lock buttons to, when the receiver openings registered with the respective hitch openings, project laterally outwardly through the respective receiver openings and into the hitch openings.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.1
- Patent Class: 224.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13080122', '11289788', '10779398', '14738895', '11358424']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8210836818809085
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4516351709503165
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7841388307878493
- Mean Citation Score: 121.585527
- Max Citation Score: 131.143
- Similarity Product: 96.6720563967228

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

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