PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920407
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["052", "012000"]

Abstract:
A roof gutter for the purpose of keeping small debris out of the gutter and allowing rainwater to pass into the gutter. The covering is comprised of a water permeable, weather resistant mesh having apertures of a pre-determined size for passing water, the mesh sized to substantially cover a rain gutter; corrugations formed in the mesh, providing a planar stiffness to the mesh causing the mesh to be self-supporting over a gutter; a debris collection first trough disposed along a longitudinal axis of the mesh, formed by making at least two bends in the mesh, the first trough located between a longitudinal midline of the mesh and a front gutter end of the mesh, wherein the gutter debris preclusion device, when attached directly or indirectly to a gutter does not require a separate support mechanism to keep the mesh substantially planar over the gutter.

Claim (Index 8):
A gutter debris preclusion device for securing to a top portion of a roof gutter that is attached to a building for keeping leaves and other debris out of the roof gutter, comprising:\n a water permeable, weather resistant mesh having apertures of a pre-determined size for passing water, the mesh having a front and rear end and sized to substantially cover a prospective rain gutter; corrugations formed in the mesh, providing a planar stiffness to the mesh causing the mesh to be self-supporting over the prospective gutter; and a debris collection trough disposed along a longitudinal axis of the mesh, a bottom of the trough formed with at least first and second wall portions joined together as an L-shaped angle, the first wall portion extending from the trough's bottom towards the rear end of the mesh, the second wall portion extending from the trough's bottom towards the front end of the mesh, wherein the trough's bottom is horizontally below and proximal to the prospective gutter's lip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89024
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15096178', '12807394', '15872483', '15096126', '13861635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7910877201521734
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5998210278075699
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.771961050917713
- Mean Citation Score: 309.22402
- Max Citation Score: 503.66568
- Similarity Product: 493.4483961829948

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