PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899040
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["280", "769000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle accessory hitch assembly for attaching an accessory to a vehicle. The vehicle may include a frame and a bed mounted to the frame. First and second base rails may be disposed on the bed and coupled to the frame of the vehicle, and the vehicle may include a vehicle trailer hitch with a receiver for accepting a shank. In one embodiment, the vehicle accessory hitch assembly may be mechanically connected to each of the first and second base rails and the vehicle trailer hitch such that the vehicle accessory hitch assembly is immovable or stationary relative to the first and second base rails and the vehicle trailer hitch. In another embodiment, the vehicle accessory hitch assembly may be adaptable to connect to differently-configured base rails and vehicle trailer hitch constructions, including different horizontal and vertical spacing between the base rails and the vehicle trailer hitch.

Claim (Index 29):
The method of  claim 25  comprising:\n adjusting a first position of the first rear section relative to the rear of the vehicle by changing a relative position between the first rear section and the first bed section; \n adjusting a second position of the second rear section relative to the rear of the vehicle by changing a relative position between the second rear section and the second bed section; and \n whereby said adjusting the first position and the second position enables the vehicle accessory hitch to be used in connection with a plurality of vehicle makes, each of the vehicle makes having a different distance between one or more mounting points and the rear of the vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64407
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15384751', '14753964', '10996910', '10219047', '12283629']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8442895020368406
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5655688939523452
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8164174412283911
- Mean Citation Score: 353.86357200000015
- Max Citation Score: 456.4232
- Similarity Product: 388.8875826578141

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