PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16453120
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["033", "760000"]

Abstract:
According to an aspect of the disclosure, embodiments of a tape measure include one or more of a belt clip removably coupleable to alternatively the left or right side of the housing, and a belt clip removably coupleable in a plurality of orientations via alignment apertures on the clip shaped to engage with a locking mechanism. According to another aspect of the disclosure, a slide lock includes a lock engagement tab which engages with a protrusion in the housing when moving the slide lock from a locked to unlocked position, requiring depression of a slide lock actuator to disengage the lock engagement tab from the protrusion to move the slide lock into the unlocked position. According to another disclosure aspect, a motor assembly includes a motor body, a spring, a backer plate, and a protrusion formed on one of the motor body and the backer plate, protrusion welded together.

Claim (Index 1):
A tape measure comprises:\n a housing having a left side and a right side surrounding a front; a tape selectively extendable from and retractable to the front of the housing; and\n an accessory removably coupleable to the housing; \n wherein the accessory comprises interlock tabs configured to selectively engage receiving flanges on the housing; and wherein the housing comprises engagement flanges on both the left side and the right side such that the accessory may alternatively be coupled to the left side and the right side.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 33.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15357168', '11106090', '16428035', '11061638', '10760327']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7219283905250307
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5276218483219624
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7024977363047238
- Mean Citation Score: 208.238256
- Max Citation Score: 376.08777
- Similarity Product: 269.1425582374567

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

Dataset: test