PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961740
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["002", "195200"]

Abstract:
An adjustable connector strap may include two interlocking bodies, wherein one body includes a plurality of teeth located along opposing edges, and the other body includes a plurality of notches located along opposing edges. The user may select the number of teeth that are mated with the notches to adjust the size of the strap. The use of interlocking teeth and notches along the opposed edges of the strap bodies may enhances the ability of the strap to maintain its interlocking strength during tension loads. The teeth and notch engagement may also allow a user to quickly engage or disengage the strap bodies, thereby enhancing the ease-of-use of the strap.

Claim (Index 1):
An adjustable connector strap for a hat, the adjustable connector strap comprising:\n a first body extending along a first longitudinal axis, the first body having:\n a base having a pair of opposed lateral edges; and \n a plurality of teeth extending from the base, the plurality of teeth comprising a first set of teeth and a second set of teeth positioned adjacent respective ones of the pair of opposed lateral edges; \n each tooth having a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being positioned between the second portion and the base; \n each tooth defining a width in a direction parallel to the first longitudinal axis, the maximum width of the second portion being greater than the maximum width of the first portion; \n a second body extending along a second longitudinal axis, the second body having:\n a pair of opposed lateral edges; and \n a plurality of notches comprising a first set of notches and a second set of notches, the plurality of notches being complimentary in shape to the plurality of teeth; \n the second body being selectively engagable with the first body in a first engaged configuration and a second engaged configuration, the number of teeth being received in corresponding ones of the plurality of notches increasing as the second body transitions from the first engagement configuration to the second engagement configuration; wherein the second body includes a first surface, an opposing second surface, a plurality of sidewalls extending between first and second surface, and a plurality of projections extending from respective ones of the plurality of sidewalls; and wherein in a cross sectional plane passing through both the first and second bodies when the second body is in the first engaged configuration, the cross sectional plane being parallel to the first and second longitudinal axes and passing through at least one tooth and at least one notch, the at least one tooth having a first portion width defined by the first portion and a second portion width defined by the second portion, the at least one notch having a maximum width and a minimum width, the minimum width being defined by the projection, the minimum width being greater than the first portion width and less than the second portion width.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98305
- Patent Class: 2.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11699972', '14672111', '14278391', '15179698', '14832337']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6391975523899363
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4616332911892183
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6214411262698645
- Mean Citation Score: 174.18316599999997
- Max Citation Score: 179.43553
- Similarity Product: 144.51489707607865

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

Dataset: test