PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981162
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["135", "118000"]

Abstract:
A cord locking apparatus is described that includes an anchoring portion operative to be secured to a surface; and a cord lock portion having: a bottom coupled to the anchoring portion, and a top, a front, a first side, a second side, and a central axis defined between the top and the bottom; a channel extending from the front to one of the first side or second side along the bottom in a channel orientation direction, the channel operative to receive a cord therethrough; and a lock slot on the front side comprising a channel end at a bottom of the slot and a lock end at the top of the slot, and operative to receive and hold the cord in a tension lock direction at an angle to the channel orientation direction.

Claim (Index 23):
A method of using a cord locking apparatus that includes an anchoring portion operative to be secured to a surface; a cord lock portion having a bottom coupled to the anchoring portion, and a top, a front, a first side, and a second side, a channel extending from the front to one of the first side or second side along the bottom in a channel orientation direction; and a lock slot on the front side comprising a channel end at a bottom of the slot and a lock end at the top of the slot, and operative to receive and hold the cord in a tension lock direction at an angle to the channel orientation direction, the method comprising:\n threading a cord through the channel; and pulling a portion of the cord that exits the channel from the front side upward through the lock slot.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58929
- Patent Class: 135.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10404598', '15312460', '10459106', '10719449', '13982102']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7049118357234094
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.444223628302978
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6788430149813662
- Mean Citation Score: 163.99276400000005
- Max Citation Score: 167.5094
- Similarity Product: 142.33196404076816

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