PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964873
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["473", "417000"]

Abstract:
A baseball is provided with indicia to aid a batter in visualizing direction and loft of a batted ball. By providing a series of projected lofts, a batter can train to hit a ball of varying lofts, ranging from ground balls, to line drives, to pop-ups and any range in between. In addition to projected lofts, one or more projected directional indicators can also be marked on the training ball.

Claim (Index 7):
A ball according to  claim 6 , said second loft indicator intersecting said directional indicator marking at a second position below said equator of said ball as said ball rests on said bottom area of said ball, said second position closer to said bottom of said ball below said equator of said ball than said first position below said equator of said ball.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12011255', '10601911', '15141893', '11042404', '14227008']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5772620014885557
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4978742013085174
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5693232214705519
- Mean Citation Score: 70.93174020000002
- Max Citation Score: 76.38938
- Similarity Product: 40.12450212253571

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

Dataset: test