PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870769
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["102", "439000"]

Abstract:
A cartridge with an expanding bullet that has advantageous terminal effects over an extended range. The expanding bullet including a bullet body including a metal jacket extending from a tail portion to a nose portion and surrounding an interior solid core and defining a forward opening and interior cavity. A tip has an exterior surface substantially flush with an exterior surface of the metal jacket. The tip has a main portion forward of the opening and a tip retention portion that at least partially fills the interior cavity. In certain embodiments the tip retention portion includes one or more fluid entry facilitation means such as a fracture regions configured to, upon impact of the bullet with a target, fracture or deform to expose one or more fluid pathways into the interior cavity and to a forward facing interior surface for initiating expansion of the expanding bullet.

Claim (Index 1):
A cartridge with an expanding bullet comprising:\n a casing with a rearward primer, propellant, and the bullet, the bullet comprising: a bullet body including a metal jacket extending from a tail portion to a nose portion and surrounding an interior solid core formed of a malleable material, the metal jacket tapered at the nose portion in a forward direction to an annular forward edge, the annular forward edge defining an opening in the metal jacket to an interior cavity extending from the opening in a rearward direction to a forward facing interior surface of the interior solid core; a polymer tip mounted in the interior cavity and having an exterior surface substantially flush with an exterior surface of the metal jacket, the tip having a main portion forward of the opening and a tip retention portion configured as a stem at least partially filling the interior cavity, the tip retention portion having an aft face confronting the interior solid core, the tip retention portion having an axially extending central cavity extending through the tip retention portion and into the main portion for facilitating fracture and/or deformation of the tip on impact providing a means for initiating a radial expansion of the bullet, a rearwardly facing surface of the tip confronting a forward facing surface of the core.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98701
- Patent Class: 102.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15294171', '15331631', '15866153', '13768424', '15219012']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7616750828340804
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.507201330152267
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7362277075658991
- Mean Citation Score: 292.701088
- Max Citation Score: 319.3805200000001
- Similarity Product: 262.5418371745969

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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