PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15771698
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["280", "618000"]

Abstract:
A linkage binding for coupling a user's shoed or booted foot to another object, such as a ski or snowshoe. The linkage binding may include an upper plate including an upper surface to which a user's shoed or booted foot is to be secured, a lower plate including a lower surface to which another object is to be secured, a front connecting link hingedly attached to both the upper plate and the lower plate, and a rear connecting link hingedly attached to both the upper plate and the lower plate to form a 4-bar linkage.

Claim (Index 40):
The method of  claim 38 , wherein the linkage binding is inserted between the user's booted foot and the downhill ski binding of the downhill ski as the user walks up a hill, the method further comprising:\n removing the linkage binding from between the user's booted foot and the downhill ski after the user has walked up the hill; binding the toe of the user's booted foot into the toe binding of the downhill ski, and binding the heel of the user's booted foot into the heel toe binding of the downhill ski, and skiing down the hill without the linkage binding inserted between the user's booted foot and the downhill ski binding.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28889
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14605696', '12919241', '12483152', '11509696', '12716136']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.83756174338413
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5025909077294985
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8040646598186669
- Mean Citation Score: 266.21952400000004
- Max Citation Score: 274.68945
- Similarity Product: 199.07451032495496

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