PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16173969
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["052", "442000"]

Abstract:
A veneer tie for use in a wall to join a veneer wall to an inner wall. The veneer tie includes an attachment portion and an insertion portion. The attachment portion has a loop defining an opening configured to receive a fastener to secure the attachment portion to the inner wythe. The attachment portion is compressively reduced in a direction that is generally normal to the opening. The insertion portion is fixed to the attachment portion and extends in a direction transverse of the attachment portion. The insertion portion is configured for attachment to the veneer wall.

Claim (Index 14):
A veneer tie for use in a wall to join an inner wythe and an outer wythe of the wall, the outer wythe formed from a plurality of successive courses of masonry units with a mortar-filled bed joint between each two adjacent coursed, the veneer tie comprising a unitary wire formative deformed to include:\n a loop defining an opening sized and shaped for receiving a fastener therethrough to connect the veneer tie to the inner wythe, the loop including a circumferential discontinuity and being compressively reduced in a direction that is generally normal to the opening; connecting portions extending from the loop on opposite sides of the circumferential discontinuity in the loop; and free end portions located at respective ends of the connection portions, the free end portions extending in a direction parallel to the loop and away from each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.575
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15797737', '13425930', '13469952', '13241642', '13620914']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8173018494366486
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5452436931243058
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7900960338054144
- Mean Citation Score: 331.6280240000001
- Max Citation Score: 392.7466
- Similarity Product: 372.7529021710872

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