PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16170945
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["294", "082180"]

Abstract:
Eating utensils disclosed herein provide desirable aspects of forks and chopsticks and also provide improved dexterity that enables functionality not possible with either forks or chopsticks alone. The eating utensils may allow a user to grasp, shovel, and pierce food as well as scoop under food from one side or both sides and to cut food with a side edge, all with a single utensil operated with only one hand. Because of the unique way the eating utensils are held and operated, they feel comfortable to users of traditional forks and chopsticks.

Claim (Index 20):
An eating utensil, comprising:\n a first elongated member comprising a first tine end and one or more tines extending from the first tine end; a second elongated member comprising a stationary portion, a movable portion with a second tine end, and a hinge connecting the stationary portion to the movable portion, the second tine end having one or more tines extending therefrom; and a cross member connecting the first elongated member to the stationary portion of the second elongated member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54688
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15870915', '11369709', '13565566', '15407936', '13722300']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7266456332359356
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5351944341705622
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7075005133293983
- Mean Citation Score: 225.25364
- Max Citation Score: 392.80936
- Similarity Product: 335.30474869767187

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