PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969285
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["408", "00100R"]

Abstract:
A cutting tool is provided that is operable to provide a circular cut or hole in a material or work piece. In various embodiments, a guide member is provided that facilitates alignment of a cutting edge of the invention with a pre-existing cut, hole or aperture. Devices and methods of the present disclosure provide for quick and easy centering of a cutting tool in order to form an enlarged hole that is concentric with a pre-existing hole.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of forming an aperture in a work-piece with a pre-existing hole, comprising:\n providing a centering device including a body portion with a small end, a large end, a bore extending from the small end to the large end, and a fastener extending through the bore with a threaded shank extending from the large end; extending the small end of the centering device through the pre-existing hole such that the body portion of the centering device contacts the work-piece; tightening a nut on the threaded shank of the fastener such that the body portion is compressed by the fastener, wherein the body portion of the centering device is clamped to the work-piece; providing a rotary cutting tool with a circular cutting device; aligning a pilot of the rotary cutting tool with a second bore extending through the fastener; and rotating the rotary cutting tool to form the aperture in the work-piece.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70833
- Patent Class: 408.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13199118', '11700603', '12973369', '11356729', '12765579']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6836301922414476
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4851603421635854
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6637832072336614
- Mean Citation Score: 230.18312200000005
- Max Citation Score: 237.5564
- Similarity Product: 185.97593334889407

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

Dataset: test