PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949154
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["024", "0160PB"]

Abstract:
A cinching device includes: a buckle including a frame defining an opening; an elongate flexible strap coupled to one portion of the frame and extending away from the frame to a freestanding distal tongue receivable by the opening of the frame, the strap including a first face carrying a plurality of loop-engageable discrete fastening elements and an opposing second face carrying a loop material; and a tab coupled to another portion of the frame, the tab including an exposed touch fastening face engageable with at least one of: the plurality of fastening elements of the first face of the strap or the loop material of the second face of the strap.

Claim (Index 24):
A method of securing a strap about one or more objects, the method comprising:\n positioning a cinching device proximate the one or more objects, the cinching device comprising a rigid buckle, an elongated flexible strap coupled to and extending from one end of the buckle, and a tab extending from an opposite end of the buckle; wrapping the flexible strap around the one or more objects; inserting a distal tongue of the strap through an opening defined by the buckle; while grasping the tab and the flexible strap, advancing the strap in a forward direction through the opening to tighten the strap, thereby cinching the strap around the one or more objects; and engaging a first face of the strap carrying an array of discrete male fastening elements with a second face of the strap carrying a loop material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18519
- Patent Class: 24.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11679110', '13797240', '15297937', '14053789', '15840196']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7456092417945498
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4542174342618069
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7164700610412755
- Mean Citation Score: 209.994562
- Max Citation Score: 247.98555
- Similarity Product: 195.9553128486336

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