PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16246621
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["285", "405000"]

Abstract:
A flange to be assembled to a duct member includes a plurality of pre-fabricated apertures or areas of weakened wall strength for receiving fasteners to assemble the flange to the end of a duct member. The apertures may be spaced apart such that the fasteners can be inserted at regular intervals along the length of the flange and the length of the end of the duct member.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 6 , wherein the first pre-fabricated fastener entry areas and the second pre-fabricated fastener entry areas are apertures or indentations, or some combination thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76923
- Patent Class: 285.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14947743', '15461714', '11779786', '15102667', '11387030']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8208816073642633
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4297251847815941
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7817659651059964
- Mean Citation Score: 284.673782
- Max Citation Score: 375.87582
- Similarity Product: 253.85898572450284

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

Dataset: test