PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15951047
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["446", "125000"]

Abstract:
An assembly includes at least one barb mount mounted to a pool noodle, and at least one connector module to which the barb mount is inserted and locked onto. The connector module allows other pool noodle ends having a similar barb mount mounted thereto to be attached to the connector module. The barb mount includes a hollow body having an engagement section and a locking section which are separated by a stop flange. The engagement section is adapted for insertion into the central cavity of a pool noodle, at one end of the pool noodle. The locking section is shaped for locking onto a connector module or an accessory module. The locking section includes locking tabs. Each connector module includes a hollow body with open end connection portions. Each connection portion includes at least two lock apertures shaped to receive opposing locking tabs of the barb mount.

Claim (Index 1):
A connector for hollow foam tubes, the each foam tube comprising an elongate body having end portions and a central cavity extending between the end portions, the connector comprising:\n a barb mount having an engagement section and a locking section, the engagement section adapted for insertion into the central cavity of one end portion of the foam tube to engage an internal surface of the central cavity at the end portion and retain the barb mount to the foam tube, and a connector module having at least one end connection portion adapted to receive and lock the locking section of the barb mount therein.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34328
- Patent Class: 446.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12431397', '11542103', '11197578', '10442540', '13792895']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6334137971473804
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4788584492349694
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6179582623561393
- Mean Citation Score: 178.3164
- Max Citation Score: 187.58705
- Similarity Product: 140.02897255601286

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