PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16057630
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["473", "316000"]

Abstract:
In an example embodiment, a golf club shaft is disclosed that comprises: a grip portion and a central shaft. The central shaft comprises a plurality of holes capable of being removably filled by one or more weighted plugs. In various example embodiments, the weighted plugs may be any weight desirable to the golfer, and may be positioned at any location on the shaft where there is a hole to customize the weighting of the golf club. In such embodiments, the weighted plugs may be made of a high density material and may weigh above about 14 grams.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of using a weighted golf club shaft comprising:\n determining a green speed of a golf course; and adjusting one or more weighted plugs to a location on the weighted golf club shaft based on the green speed; the weighted golf club shaft comprising a central shaft, the central shaft comprising a plurality of holes into which a plurality of plugs may be removably inserted and wherein at least one of the at least one plug is a weighted plug.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70968
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11852982', '12157400', '13723892', '10423169', '09845280']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6149702915532336
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4693110478637075
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.600404367184281
- Mean Citation Score: 165.96176200000005
- Max Citation Score: 184.20245
- Similarity Product: 142.78008268548842

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

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