PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16188546
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["473", "377000"]

Abstract:
The present invention concerns golf balls having a modified aerodynamic configuration and a method for creating a modified aerodynamic configuration that improves dimple coverage, interdigitation, and non-alignment in golf ball dimple patterns by rotating the repeating area elements about pre-determined center points, with further optional steps of expanding or contracting the elemental arrangements about pre-determined center points, enlarging or reducing the sizes of dimples, and adding extra dimples to occupy land areas created by the previous steps. The resulting modified aerodynamic configuration with a rotated element has increased dimple coverage, greater interdigitation and improved non-alignment.

Claim (Index 5):
A golf ball comprising a core and a cover having a modified aerodynamic configuration comprising a base aerodynamic configuration having one or more repeating geometric elements each of which comprise one or more dimples, wherein each of which comprise at least one dimple that is not located at the center point of the element, wherein the elements of the base aerodynamic configuration have been rotated one or more degrees about a pre-determined center point of the element resulting in the modified aerodynamic configuration, wherein the diameters of the dimples are enlarged or reduced by a diameter factor of about 0.910 to about 1.030, wherein dimple coverage of the modified aerodynamic configuration is increased by at least 1 percentage point from the base aerodynamic configuration

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58462
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15377031', '12071087', '12632909', '10784744', '10361574']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6619216082038151
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6668990142304685
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6624193488064805
- Mean Citation Score: 398.63396
- Max Citation Score: 672.80536
- Similarity Product: 653.0444583817388

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