PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967169
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["102", "439000"]

Abstract:
A cartridge comprising a bullet, the bullet providing a radially expanding array of bullet fragments upon entering a target and also providing an increase in effective surface area of the bullet within the target by structural features that facilitate tumbling or mushrooming in the target. In an embodiment a pair of axial core members are aligned in a bullet jacket with the forward core member being segmented with separation junctures formed by engaged faces of adjacent segments. Impact causing fracturing of the segments from a base portion.

Claim (Index 14):
A cartridge comprising a cartridge casing with a mouth and an interior, propellant in the interior of the cartridge casing, and a bullet secured in the mouth of the cartridge casing, the cartridge and bullet have a central axis, the bullet having a forward tip and a length, the bullet comprising a homogeneous material, the bullet having a rearward base portion and a forward ogive portion, the forward ogive portion extending at least 40% of the length of the bullet, the forward ogive portion having a plurality of axially extending cuts defining a plurality of ogive segments that are circumferentially spaced around the ogive portion, the rearward base portion not having any cuts, each axial cut of the forward ogive portion, when viewed axially looking toward the forward tip of the bullet are one of arcuately shaped and V-shaped, the axially extending cuts extending an axial length at least 30% of the length of the bullet, wherein at each cut an inward face of the respective ogive segment confronts an outwardly directed face of a central pillar portion of the ogive portion, the central pillar portion extending from the base portion and including the forward tip of the bullet, wherein upon impact with a target, the ogive segments are configured to break off of the bullet and the pillar portion is configured to remain intact with the base portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.4918
- Patent Class: 102.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15876186', '15870769', '15866153', '15219012', '13768424']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.767812704987084
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5116935633644235
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7422007908248179
- Mean Citation Score: 306.6384460000001
- Max Citation Score: 335.00284
- Similarity Product: 285.6855537247324

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