PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15987366
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["052", "105000"]

Abstract:
Modular building methods and systems using lightweight foam modular panels which are based on fractal geometry. Each panel includes one or more channels formed through the foam body, where the channels are centered between adjacent fractal modules of the overall modular panel. The channels are configured to receive splines (e.g., dimensional lumber) therein. The entire system is based on dimensional lumber sizing. The rectangular panels include a pre-cut slot extending through one face, to the channel, while a score line is formed in the opposite face, aligned with the pre-cut slot of the opposite face. The panels may be easily and quickly cut with a box knife to reduce the number of fractal modules in a given panel, to provide a smaller panel still based on such fractal geometry. Such a cut is made along the score line, where the foam is no more than 2 inches thick.

Claim (Index 1):
A modular panel for use in constructing a building, the modular panel comprising:\n a body; a plurality of channels extending through a length or width of the panel, each channel being configured to receive a spline therein, wherein each spline once received in the channel is disposed within the body, without the spline being exposed on an outside face of the body, so that the spline is restrained once received within the channel; wherein the body comprises foam, and the foam body is rectangular in shape, the foam body further comprising a plurality of pre-cut slots in a first face of the panel, each pre-cut slot being centered on a respective channel, extending through the first face into the channel, the foam body further comprising a score line aligned with a corresponding pre-cut slot, on an opposite second face of the panel, such that the thickness of the foam beneath the score line is less than half the thickness of the foam body as defined between the first face of the panel and the opposite second face of the panel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86364
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10310085', '12147444', '15094528', '10553172', '14333182']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8076809251579335
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4990355140473944
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7768163840468797
- Mean Citation Score: 204.259866
- Max Citation Score: 217.39186
- Similarity Product: 133.7649043017125

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

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