PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16001621
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["280", "163000"]

Abstract:
A motor vehicle side step has a running board with a slot in its back side through which bolts extend to clamp an insert and a base of a vehicle mounting bracket to the running board. A tubular top frame extends around the outer side of top step plate and has opposing ends fastened to the running board with the top step plate fastened to the running board and top frame member to form a top step. A second step support frame has two connector plates that bolt to a bottom side of the running board through slots in that bottom side. The second step support frame extends outward and downward from the connector plates to provide a lower support to which a lower step plate is fastened to form a lower step. A top step support extends upward from the second step support frame and connects to the bottom of the top step plate.

Claim (Index 18):
A side step for a motor vehicle having a frame and vehicle body, comprising:\n a metal running board extending along a first longitudinal axis, the running board having a front end and an opposing rear end and further having a bottom side facing downward toward the ground during use, the bottom side having first and second parallel rows of elongated, closed ended, bottom slots, each bottom slot extending along an axis parallel to the first axis, the bottom slots in the first row being staggered with respect to the bottom slots in the second row; a tubular, metal, side step member having a middle portion parallel to the first axis and a front portion connected to the front end of the running board and having a rear end connected to the rear end of the running board; a top step plate extending between the running board and connected to the middle portion of the tubular side step member; and further comprising: a back side of the running board, the back side having an enlarged opening through the back side with first and second, closed ended back slots each parallel to the first axis and extending from adjacent the enlarged opening toward an opposing end of the back side; first and second inserts, each located inside the running board and sized to pass through either the enlarged opening or one of the first and second back slots; first and second vehicle mounting brackets each having at least one vehicle connecting plate with a fastener hole therethrough, a base connected to a respective one of the first and second inserts using threaded fasteners passing through one of the first and second back slots, each vehicle mounting bracket further having a middle portion connecting the base to the vehicle connecting plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71186
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15795743', '10115588', '15266106', '11214365', '15303263']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8148779587226004
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.538389410592123
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7872291039095526
- Mean Citation Score: 222.735442
- Max Citation Score: 387.09665
- Similarity Product: 358.4277325897694

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

Dataset: test