PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16242100
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["280", "033992"]

Abstract:
A shopping cart basket having a handle region located at the front or the sides of the shopping cart basket is disclosed. The forward handle region may have a plurality of openings along the front, corners, and sides to allow a customer to easily grip the shopping cart basket and guide the shopping cart. The shopping cart basket may be formed from a metallic wire portion and a non-metallic forward handle region, or in some embodiments, the shopping cart basket may be formed from a fully formed from a polymer material.

Claim (Index 18):
A shopping cart comprising:\n a frame including a rear handle and a chassis connected to four casters, a shopping cart basket attached to the frame, wherein the shopping cart basket comprises a lower basket portion including a front wall on a front end, an opening on a rear end opposite the front wall, a first side wall extending between the front wall and the rear end, a second side wall extending between the front wall and the rear end opposite the first side wall, and a bottom wall extending between the front wall, the first side wall, and the second side wall, a forward handle region forming an upper portion of the shopping cart basket, wherein the forward handle region includes a main body portion positioned along the front wall of the shopping cart basket, a first side arm that extends from the main body portion along a top of the first side wall of the shopping cart basket for a majority of a length of the first side wall, and a second side arm that extends from the main body portion along a top of the second side wall of the shopping cart basket for a majority of a length of the second side wall, a groove extending along the first side arm, along the main body portion, and along the second side arm between a top groove surface and a lower portion of the shopping cart basket, wherein the groove is configured to receive a support rod to secure the shopping cart basket to the frame, and the lower portion of the shopping cart basket has a honeycomb structure; wherein the forward handle region includes a first front opening and a second front opening positioned between an upper surface and a lower surface at the front end of the shopping cart basket, wherein the first front opening and the second front opening have a substantially trapezoidal shape, and are separated by a support rib that extends between the upper surface and a top groove surface, and wherein the first front opening has a length defined in a horizontal direction and a height defined in a vertical direction, wherein the first front opening has a ratio of a minimum length to a minimum height within a range of 1.8:1 and 3.4:1, and wherein the second front opening has a length defined in a horizontal direction and a height defined in a vertical direction, wherein the first front opening has a ratio of a minimum length to a minimum height within a range of 1.8:1 and 3.4:1.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08511
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12340276', '14160433', '13925392', '14214434', '12168729']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.821379457515332
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5120143031238757
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7904429420761864
- Mean Citation Score: 294.0240720000001
- Max Citation Score: 302.3941700000001
- Similarity Product: 247.6116211752713

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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