PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["114", "219000"]

Abstract:
An arrangement of fenders nested together for compact storage, the fenders including two or more cylindrical bodies having a cavity accessed through the fender top, the fenders being similar shape but graduated in size such that the cavity of a larger fender tensionally receives the next smaller sized fender, the outer diameter of the smaller fender equal to the inner diameter of the larger fender cavity. A fender has a rigid inner core surrounded by a compressible shell made of foam or similar material. The inner core has attachment points for a rope or line. The smallest nesting fender in the set has a cavity diameter sized to fit a commercially-available, off-the-shelf fender. The fenders may be separated and deployed at individual locations on a vessel, or kept together and deployed as a single fender capable of absorbing a greater impact than any of the fenders individually would absorb.

Claim (Index 15):
A nesting fender arrangement, comprising:\n a first fender, including at least:\n a cylindrical body, including at least:\n a compressible outer shell; \n a rigid inner core disposed within a hollow interior to the compressible outer shell and adjacent to an upper rim of the compressible outer shell, an upper rim portion of the rigid inner core exposed by a cutout of an upper rim of the compressible outer shell; and \n a grommet disposed through the upper rim portion of the rigid inner core exposed by the cutout; \n \n an interior cavity, the interior cavity including at least an annular shape with a top aperture, the top aperture leading to the interior cavity through a top surface of the cylindrical body; and \n at least one other fender, the at least one other fender including at least a cylindrical body diameter that is substantially the same as an interior cavity diameter of the first fender, wherein the first fender removably receives an entirety of the at least one other fender within the interior cavity, the at least one other fender tensionally retained within the interior cavity of the first fender at least partially via compressible outer shell compression.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78652
- Patent Class: 114.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15633605', '13941086', '15178515', '10437744', '15544251']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6943585933824724
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5715461562821058
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6820773496724357
- Mean Citation Score: 221.30579
- Max Citation Score: 434.15393
- Similarity Product: 429.8522722077996

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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