PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862288
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["224", "321000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle article carrier is disclosed which has a first pair of support elements and a second pair of support elements secured to an outer body surface of a vehicle. A pair of cross bar assemblies may be secured in either stowed orientations, in which the cross bar assemblies are each secured to one of the first pair of support elements and one of the second pair of support elements, or an operative configuration in which one of the cross bar assemblies is secured to the first pair of support elements while the other is secured to the second pair of support elements. One of the cross bar assemblies may be pivotally attached at one end to one of the support elements enabling it to be swung between its stowed and operative positions. The other cross bar assembly may be fully removable from the support elements, and may be attached in two different locations on the second pair of support elements.

Claim (Index 1):
A vehicle article carrier system for securing articles elevationally above an outer body surface of a vehicle, the system comprising:\n first and second support elements secured in spaced apart relation to one another to the outer body surface adjacent a first portion of the vehicle; second and third rear support elements secured in spaced apart relation to one another to the outer body surface adjacent a second portion of the vehicle; a first cross bar secured to the first support element at a first end thereof, and positionable in an operative orientation extending perpendicularly between the first and second support elements, and in a stowed orientation extending parallel to, and secured to, the first and third support elements; a second cross bar having first and second ends thereof; the first cross bar including a latching assembly at a second end thereof; the second cross bar including latching assemblies at the first and second ends thereof; and the second cross bar being secureable at two operative, longitudinally spaced apart locations on the third and fourth support elements to enable selective spacing of the second cross bar relative to the first cross bar when the first and second cross bars are in their operative positions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.70968
- Patent Class: 224.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12639480', '15493805', '15839147', '14577504', '15049574']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8617187558251913
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5004647436996915
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8255933546126413
- Mean Citation Score: 295.47379399999994
- Max Citation Score: 319.92963
- Similarity Product: 277.5755312152737

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

Dataset: test