PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15881751
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["052", "741150"]

Abstract:
A shallow foundation form and method of using are provided. The form is useful for pouring concrete slab foundations and results in a frost protected foundation with improved thermal characteristics. The form may include brackets to hold rebar at various locations. The brackets are designed to avoid the use of fastening devices, such as wire ties. When used to pour a concrete foundation, the form and brackets reduce construction material input costs, reduce the amount of skilled labor required, and reduce the amount of time required to pour a foundation.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of pouring a slab on grade, concrete foundation, the method comprising:\n providing one or more forms, said one or more forms comprising a vertically oriented, rectangularly shaped outer wall, a horizontally oriented base connected to the bottom of the vertically oriented, rectangularly shaped outer wall and positioned perpendicular to the vertically oriented, rectangularly shaped outer wall, and a vertically oriented, rectangularly shaped inner wall connected to and located above the opposite side of the horizontally oriented base as the vertically oriented, rectangularly shaped outer wall; digging a perimeter trench that defines an outer perimeter boundary of the slab on grade, concrete foundation; placing pea gravel in the bottom of the perimeter trench; placing the one or more forms in the perimeter trench, on top of the pea gravel; placing perimeter horizontal insulation on the outside of the one or more forms; placing a horizontal insulating slab on an area located within the outer perimeter boundary; and pouring concrete into the one or more forms and on top of the horizontal insulating slab.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62295
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10752583', '12503414', '15412207', '11901059', '14854966']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8278550463330537
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.492950948961479
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7943646365958963
- Mean Citation Score: 229.13196800000003
- Max Citation Score: 236.77165
- Similarity Product: 165.50264971591832

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

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