PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16215583
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["296", "100120"]

Abstract:
A cover for a truck bed that can be horizontally traversed between expanded and collapsed positions is shown. Since the cover is horizontally traversed, the person manipulating the cover need not lift the cover vertically in order to reconfigure the cover between the expanded and collapsed positions. Women and elderly people who are generally not as strong as men can manipulate the cover.

Claim (Index 17):
A vehicle comprising:\n a cab for carrying passengers; a bed extending from a rear portion of the cab and having opposed first and second sidewall; and a cover comprising:\n a rigid member slidably connected to the first and second sidewalls of the bed and being selectively transitional between collapsed and expanded positions, the rigid member moving closer to the cab as the rigid member transitions from the expanded position toward the collapsed position; \n a flexible portion fabricated from a flexible sheet and having a first end portion and a second end portion, the first end portion fixedly securable to the cab, the second end portion fixedly securable to the rigid member; \n a plurality of structures attached to the opposed first and second sidewalls; wherein the flexible portion is supported on the plurality of structures and any structure attached to the opposed first and second sidewalls are primarily structurally attached to the first and second sidewalls so that forces from the cab are not transferred to the truck bed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59524
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15177268', '15340157', '15047519', '15686009', '15935434']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8479512637233956
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5675797201303334
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8199141093640894
- Mean Citation Score: 492.67434
- Max Citation Score: 494.63022
- Similarity Product: 488.7658155033983

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