PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926207
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["174", "066000"]

Abstract:
A temporary protective cover for junction boxes with or without installed switches and/or outlets and for conduit bodies, empty or containing wires or cables of various sizes and uses. The protective cover having a front and rear surface; having a trapezoidal cavity sized to receive installed switches and/or outlets in junction box; the protective cover having two elongated tabs that extend on either side of installed switch or plug inside junction box, for securing the protective cover to junction boxes and conduit bodies; having rectangular or circular cavity opening that is sized to fit openings of junction boxes or conduit bodies, in such a manner that the cover remains fixed relative to the junction box or conduit body.

Claim (Index 5):
A method of creating a temporary protective cover for and electrical junction box, to be used during painting, taping and texturing drywall, exterior stuccoing, when installing new junction boxes and other construction and maintenance tasks, said method comprising the steps of; forming a cover portion with the bottom edges of cover to contact the rim surface of the junction box; and having extending side tabs, extensions of the cover portion, wherein the extending side tabs when squeezed simultaneously can slide into opening of junction box to frictionally engage the interior walls of the box. The cover is maintained by the frictional engagement between the extended side tabs and the interior surfaces of the outlet box, to secure the temporary cover in place. Other embodiments of this invention can be used with a structured cable box and bracket, F. S. Boxes and conduit bodies.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90909
- Patent Class: 174.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12217198', '13507701', '12228014', '11879947', '12703541']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8390641861394591
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5260446358995905
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8077622311154723
- Mean Citation Score: 232.5279
- Max Citation Score: 352.49435
- Similarity Product: 292.2072046035796

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