PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16227179
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["174", "093000"]

Abstract:
An integral, unitary pre-expanded cover assembly unit for covering an electrical connection between first and second electrical cables each having a primary conductor and a neutral conductor includes a cover assembly, a holdout and a holdout support. The cover assembly includes an elastomeric sleeve and a duct. The elastomeric sleeve defines a cable passage to receive the electrical connection and the primary conductors of the first and second cables. The duct overlies the elastomeric sleeve. The duct defines a duct passage configured to receive at least one of the neutral conductors therethrough. The holdout is removably mounted within the cable passage of the elastomeric sleeve. The holdout defines a holdout passage. The holdout maintains the elastomeric sleeve in an expanded state. The holdout support is removably mounted within the holdout passage. The holdout support reinforces the holdout.

Claim (Index 24):
A method for installing an elastomeric sleeve defining a sleeve passage on an elongate substrate, the method comprising:\n providing a pre-expanded unit including:\n an elastomeric sleeve defining a sleeve passage to receive the elongate substrate; \n a holdout removably mounted within the sleeve passage of the elastomeric sleeve, the holdout defining a holdout passage, wherein the holdout maintains the elastomeric sleeve in an expanded state; and \n a holdout support removably mounted within the holdout passage, wherein the holdout support reinforces the holdout; \n wherein the holdout support is configured to be selectively transitioned from an expanded configuration in the holdout passage to a released configuration to facilitate removal of the holdout support from the holdout passage; \n transitioning the holdout support from the expanded configuration to the released configuration; removing the holdout support from the holdout passage; mounting the elastomeric sleeve and the holdout on the elongate substrate such that the elongate substrate extends through the sleeve passage and the holdout passage; and removing the holdout from the elastomeric sleeve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.70909
- Patent Class: 174.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15720694', '15722507', '12114995', '15142759', '15136445']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8543375502632957
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5892794687880826
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8278317421157744
- Mean Citation Score: 423.595802
- Max Citation Score: 599.85504
- Similarity Product: 395.4451516273498

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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