PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878820
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["070", "018000"]

Abstract:
A cable lock, for use with a package and a fixed object, includes cables, a padlock, and a cable tightener. The cables together extend in a loop about the package. The padlock secures the cables to each other in a locked configuration. The cable tightener securely engages and permits longitudinal movement of a cable relative thereto, but only in a tightening direction unless a release is selectively actuated. The cable tightener is securely affixed to the fixed object. In the locked configuration, the cable loop is tightened about the package towards a secured configuration. Then, the cable loop engages and secures the package against the fixed object, such that the package prevents access to the release. Selective unlocking of the padlock permits removal of the package from the cable loop and ready access to the release.

Claim (Index 1):
An adjustable length cable lock device, for use with a portable item and a fixed object, comprising:\n a) an elongate first cable having a first securing end portion and a secured end portion, and an elongate second cable having a second securing end portion and and a handle end portion, with the first cable and the second cable adapted to together extend in a cable loop about the portable item, and with the handle end portion having a handle adapted to be pulled to tighten the cable loop about the portable item; b) a locking mechanism which securely locks the first and second securing end portions to each other in a locked configuration, and which is selectively unlockable to permit removal of the first and second securing end portions from each other; c) a cable tightening device which: has a selectively actuable release mechanism; securely engages and permits longitudinal movement of the second cable relative to the cable tightening device, with said longitudinal movement permitted only in a tightening direction unless the release mechanism is selectively actuated; and defines a cable passage therethrough, with the second cable slidably extending through the cable passage and securely engaged by the cable tightening device; and d) an affixing member secured to the cable tightening device and the secured end portion of the first cable, with the affixing member for securing to the fixed object such that the first cable and, via the cable tightening device, the second cable are then secured to the fixed object; wherein, in the locked configuration, said movement in the tightening direction operatively tightens the cable loop about the portable item towards a secured configuration; and wherein, in the secured configuration, the cable loop engages and secures the portable item against the fixed object, such that the portable item thus secured prevents access to the release mechanism, with the aforesaid selective unlocking of the locking mechanism permitting removal of the portable item from the cable loop and ready access to the release mechanism.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4127
- Patent Class: 70.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11318668', '11588513', '11023721', '11647014', '13161554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7245334209422661
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.3964492908317487
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6917250079312144
- Mean Citation Score: 208.604942
- Max Citation Score: 214.05475
- Similarity Product: 180.6841372533292

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test