PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16194186
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["135", "088010"]

Abstract:
A rain and sun shield for a covered golf cart semi-permanently attached to the roof of a golf cart. The device is easy to install; will retrofit to any standard golf cart roof; does not interfere with the parking and storing profile of a fleet of golf carts. The device is easily opened and closed to provide the golf cart user with added sun and rain protection when in use.

Claim (Index 1):
A rain and sun shield device comprising:\n a pair of main support bars having a lower surface, an upper surface, a right side, and a left side, wherein each of the pair of main support bars is attached to at least one 180-degree hinge having an upper and lower surface and a proximal and distal edge; said lower surface of the distal edge of each 180-degree hinge is attached to the lower surface of one of the pair of main support bars and said proximal edge of each 180-degree hinge is semi-permanently attached to a golf cart roof, said roof having a top, an underside, a front, a back, a left and a right side edge; one of each of said pair of hinges is attached to the golf cart roof near the right side edge of the golf cart roof top; the other of each said pair of hinges is attached to the golf cart roof near the left side edge of the golf cart roof top; a pair of perimeter support rods having a top edge, a bottom edge, a forward edge and a rear edge; a plurality of rigid ribs each having a top edge, an interior end attached to the one of the pair of support bars and an exterior end attached to one of the pair of perimeter support rods; a plurality of rotatable swivel pin joints located at each attachment point of the rigid ribs to one of the pair of support bars and one of the pair of perimeter support rods whereby the rigid ribs can rotate relative to each other; a flexible, water-proof and opaque material covering the plurality of rigid ribs to form a pair of panels having a top and bottom surface and a front, rear, left and right side edge; wherein the deployed panels extend beyond the right and left side of the golf cart roof; and whereby said each pair of hinges the panels unfold about 180 degrees to lay the panels partly on the golf cart roof and also extend beyond the right and left side edges of the golf cart roof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63043
- Patent Class: 135.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16125125', '15879943', '10695860', '10748984', '13592099']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7074631165048204
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6035793968204934
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6970747445363877
- Mean Citation Score: 355.903742
- Max Citation Score: 534.62537
- Similarity Product: 520.2378008970571

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