PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983631
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["473", "406000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for increasing the accuracy of aiming in connection with putting a ball on a green of a golf course. A main part of the aiming aid is placed behind the ball so that the center of the ball is situated in a real or imaginary center of a recess, which can be half-circular. An alignment mark on the aiming aid is directed toward an intended target, such as the hole, and aligned with a marking, such as a text line, drawn line, or other marking, on the ball aligned with or at an angle to a perpendicular end edge of the aiming aid or a marked perpendicular line on the aiming aid. The aiming aid is removed before putting with the straight face of a club parallel to the marking on the ball.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the main part is placed behind the ball before removing the ball from the green such that the center of the ball is situated in the real or imaginary center of a recessed semicircle of the aiming aid and the alignment mark is directed toward the intended target with a short side of the aiming aid perpendicular to the intended target.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08451
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11616862', '12853072', '11420537', '12391753', '10657293']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6622313125055369
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5068764752431649
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6466958287792998
- Mean Citation Score: 228.96491
- Max Citation Score: 251.19139
- Similarity Product: 157.25839850398418

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

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