PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868109
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["206", "580000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method to secure a bolt cutter, wire cutter, cable cutter or other type of pivot handled tool with two protruding tabs whose apertures align with each other as the handles of the pivot handled tool enter a closed position. A shackle of a padlock may be inserted through the aligned apertures to lock the handles in the closed position.

Claim (Index 3):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n means for affixing the respective apertured tabs to the two handles, the means for affixing being selected from the group consisting of a weld, a clamp, a press, a mold, and an adhesive that is applied into or onto each of the handles of the pivot handled tool.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 206.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15498046', '11605979', '13325033', '12653806', '12559097']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7654361195594458
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5315638479427992
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.742048892397781
- Mean Citation Score: 195.99179
- Max Citation Score: 376.8539
- Similarity Product: 359.42975852973456

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