PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974582
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["052", "024000"]

Abstract:
A snow guard assembly heated within one or more snow guard tubes. Heating of the snow guard tube prevents excessive accumulation of snow and helps prevent snow build up and spill over above the top of the snow guard. The tubes can be length-wise separable to place and service the heating elements. The heating element can be standard heat tape or infrared LEDs. The snow guard tubes can optionally have a non-uniform cross-sectional thickness to direct the heat more efficiently in a desired orientation. The interior of the snow guard tubes can be selectively coated with infrared absorbing or reflective material to direct the heat in a desired orientation when infrared LEDs are used as a heat source. The snow guard can be attached to many types of roof surfaces including tile roofs, metal roofs with or without standing seams, and shingle roofs.

Claim (Index 4):
A snow guard assembly for attaching to a roof, comprising:\n a snow guard tube including a hollow interior; a heating element positioned within the snow guard tube; a mounting bracket secured to the snow guard tube; the mounting bracket projecting the snow guard tube above the roof; a threaded fastener; the snow guard tube includes a snow guard tube mounting portion extending length-wise along the snow guard tube; the snow guard tube mounting portion includes length-wise grooves; and the threaded fastener secures the mounting bracket to the snow guard tube by threadedly engaging the length-wise grooves.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14698905', '10887206', '10360324', '11068182', '10665768']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8251847690005196
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4850036618570291
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7911666582861705
- Mean Citation Score: 251.047278
- Max Citation Score: 265.28558
- Similarity Product: 237.3616476180458

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