PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920407
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["052", "012000"]

Abstract:
A roof gutter for the purpose of keeping small debris out of the gutter and allowing rainwater to pass into the gutter. The covering is comprised of a water permeable, weather resistant mesh having apertures of a pre-determined size for passing water, the mesh sized to substantially cover a rain gutter; corrugations formed in the mesh, providing a planar stiffness to the mesh causing the mesh to be self-supporting over a gutter; a debris collection first trough disposed along a longitudinal axis of the mesh, formed by making at least two bends in the mesh, the first trough located between a longitudinal midline of the mesh and a front gutter end of the mesh, wherein the gutter debris preclusion device, when attached directly or indirectly to a gutter does not require a separate support mechanism to keep the mesh substantially planar over the gutter.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for precluding debris from a roof gutter, comprising:\n sizing a water-permeable mesh to substantially cover a prospective rain gutter, wherein the mesh is weather resistant, having apertures of a pre-determined size for passing water; forming corrugations in the mesh, wherein the corrugations provide a planar stiffness to the mesh causing the mesh to be self-supporting over the prospective gutter; forming a debris collection trough along a longitudinal axis of the mesh, the trough having a bottom angled portion with first and second wall portions connected to the bottom angled portion, the first wall portion extending from the bottom angled portion towards a rear gutter end of the mesh, the second wall portion extending from bottom angled portion towards a front gutter end of the mesh, wherein the bottom angled portion is adjacent to and positioned below a prospective gutter lip, wherein the trough provides a horizontally angled, substantially L-shaped reservoir below the prospective gutter lip, wherein, when the mesh is attached to the prospective gutter, the mesh does not require a separate support mechanism.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89024
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15096178', '12807394', '15872483', '15096126', '13861635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7930542979761439
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.592986524895504
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7730475206680799
- Mean Citation Score: 309.22402
- Max Citation Score: 503.66568
- Similarity Product: 458.5197795778084

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