PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974582
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["052", "024000"]

Abstract:
A snow guard assembly heated within one or more snow guard tubes. Heating of the snow guard tube prevents excessive accumulation of snow and helps prevent snow build up and spill over above the top of the snow guard. The tubes can be length-wise separable to place and service the heating elements. The heating element can be standard heat tape or infrared LEDs. The snow guard tubes can optionally have a non-uniform cross-sectional thickness to direct the heat more efficiently in a desired orientation. The interior of the snow guard tubes can be selectively coated with infrared absorbing or reflective material to direct the heat in a desired orientation when infrared LEDs are used as a heat source. The snow guard can be attached to many types of roof surfaces including tile roofs, metal roofs with or without standing seams, and shingle roofs.

Claim (Index 17):
The snow guard assembly of  claim 15 , wherein the first tube portion projects length-wise along an L-shaped cross section; and\n the L-shaped cross section includes a first tube portion bottom area forming a first leg of the L-shaped cross section and the backstop extending upward from the first tube portion bottom area and forming a second leg of the L-shaped cross section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14698905', '10887206', '10360324', '11068182', '10665768']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8405168690350654
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4978366333974844
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8062488454713074
- Mean Citation Score: 251.047278
- Max Citation Score: 265.28558
- Similarity Product: 203.60895518696665

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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