PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16154076
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["405", "229000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for soil improvement foundation isolation and load spreading are provided. The systems and methods provided herein relate to isolation of structural foundations from soil improvement elements and distributing stress from high stiffness elements to lower stiffness materials. A shear load transfer reduction system may include one or more ground improvement elements for supporting an applied load. A shear break element may be positioned above one or more ground improvement elements. The shear break elements may be configured to have low interface shear strength. Further, systems and methods are provided for creating an engineered slip surface for reducing shear stresses between a laterally loaded foundation and a rigid foundation support element and wherein two slip pads are provided that form the engineered slip surface.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for reducing shear load transfer, the method comprising:\n placing at least one ground improvement element into the ground; positioning two or more shear break elements above the at least one ground improvement element, wherein the two or more break elements are configured to have low interface shear strength and are formed of one shear break element comprising a first material and one shear break element comprising a second material differing from the first material; and positioning a structural foundation above the two or more shear break elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82192
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15067241', '13912986', '13319083', '15916724', '14748241']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7417284988960084
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.523979040706701
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7199535530770778
- Mean Citation Score: 215.586154
- Max Citation Score: 348.1083
- Similarity Product: 308.75858379902235

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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