PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15764796
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["296", "180400"]

Abstract:
The present invention includes methods and apparatus for flexibly attaching a trailer skirt to a trailer. This can include attaching a trailer mounting bracket to a trailer and attaching a bi-modulus bending member to the trailer mounting bracket in a cantilevered configuration at a bracket end of the bi-modulus bending member. The bi-modulus bending member includes a bending element set configured to elastically buckle when a lateral force component exceeds a threshold force, and the bi-modulus bending member is configured to return to a straightened configuration after buckling and bending to a buckled configuration when the threshold force is removed.

Claim (Index 17):
The trailer-skirt coupling apparatus of  claim 16 , where at least one of the first subset and the second subset includes two or more elongate bending elements of the plurality of elongate bending elements, where the two or more elongate bending elements are arranged in a stacked relationship.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12245
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15764814', '15764807', '13078982', '12647004', '15257571']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8316094967348747
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5039510439223286
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7988436514536201
- Mean Citation Score: 246.7186
- Max Citation Score: 360.90198
- Similarity Product: 263.1851279992318

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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