PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032513
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["280", "014220"]

Abstract:
The disclosure is directed to a spacer block for elevating a boot of a rider of a snowboard. Due to the elevation of the boot above the snowboard, the boot drag of the rider is reduced. The spacer block is installed between the snowboard and a binding system of the snowboard that secures the rider's feet to the snowboard. By adding the spacer between the snowboard and the binding system, the boots are now elevated above the snowboard, and the rider can make sharper, more angled turns without the toes or heel of their boot contacting the snow. While the application describes the spacer block to be used with a snowboard, the spacer block can be used with boards for other recreational activities where boot drag is a problem. For example, the spacer block can be used with boards for gliding on sand, or with boards for rolling on ground.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for providing an elevated installation of a binding system of a snowboard, comprising:\n a spacer block that is configured to be installed on a snowboard, wherein the spacer block, when used with the binding system, is configured to elevate the binding system on the snowboard by a thickness of the spacer block, wherein the spacer block includes a circular void at the center of the spacer block to enable mounting of the binding system with the spacer block on the snowboard.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37681
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['09766549', '11409860', '10768340', '10740217', '12483152']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8225993317595932
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4774682118636285
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7880862197699968
- Mean Citation Score: 212.903544
- Max Citation Score: 221.57327
- Similarity Product: 180.86985853969875

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