PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16502330
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["296", "057100"]

Abstract:
A shroud for a truck bed tailgate may have a set of platens adapted for engagement with a pick-up truck having truck bed, and a tailgate pivotable about a tailgate pivot axis. The set of platens may have a first platen adapted to be fixedly engaged with the truck bed, the first platen defining a hinge cover pivot axis parallel to the tailgate pivot axis. The shroud may further have a hinge cover, the hinge cover being rotatably engaged with the first platen to rotate about the hinge cover pivot axis between a first orientation wherein it extends over the elongated tailgate clearance gap, and a second orientation wherein it is clear of the tailgate when the tailgate is in the closed position.

Claim (Index 13):
The shrouded truck bed tailgate of  claim 12 ,\n wherein the set platens is adapted for engagement as a four-bar linkage and further comprises,\n a second platen defining a second pivot axis and a third pivot axis parallel to the second pivot axis and offset from the second pivot axis by a distance L 2 ,\n the second platen being adapted to be engaged to the first platen such that the second pivot axis and the first pivot axis coincide and the second platen is pivotable about the first pivot axis, and \n wherein the second platen defines a second surface; \n \n a third platen defining a fourth pivot axis and a fifth pivot axis parallel to the fourth pivot axis and offset from the fourth pivot axis by a distance L 3 ,\n the third platen being adapted to be engaged to the second platen such that the fourth pivot axis and the third pivot axis coincide and the third platen is pivotable about the third pivot axis, and \n wherein the third platen defines a third surface; \n \n a fourth platen defining a sixth pivot axis,\n the fourth platen being adapted to be fixedly engaged with the tailgate with the sixth pivot axis parallel to the tailgate pivot axis and offset from the tailgate pivot axis by a distance L 4  such that the fourth platen is pivotable about the tailgate pivot axis, \n the fourth platen further being adapted to be engaged to the third platen such that the sixth pivot axis and the fifth pivot axis coincide, \n the fourth platen being pivotable about the fifth pivot axis, and \n wherein the fourth platen defines a fourth surface; and \n \n wherein the shroud further comprises,\n a first pivot shaft adapted to pivotably connect the first platen and the second platen along the coincident first pivot axis and second pivot axis; \n a second pivot shaft adapted to pivotably connect the second platen and the third platen along the coincident third pivot axis and fourth pivot axis; and \n a third pivot shaft adapted to pivotably connect the third platen and the fourth platen along the coincident fifth pivot axis and sixth pivot axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32143
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15888311', '13835226', '15484531', '14023823', '14741276']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8020140236359341
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5464719137889678
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7764598126512374
- Mean Citation Score: 294.7407560000001
- Max Citation Score: 484.08008
- Similarity Product: 354.9861225561428

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

Dataset: test