PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16194982
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["052", "653200"]

Abstract:
A length-adjustable truss stiffener is intended to be used to strengthen truss systems at locations of localized over-stress to reduce the cost from the alternative solution which is to reduce truss spacings. The stiffener consists of two or more sleeves locking around two or more components of the main truss. The sleeves mounted on different truss components are connected to one another with a length-adjustable shank. The stiffener may be used in two-dimensional or three-dimensional trusses. Of a collection of prefabricated trusses necessary to erect a structure, only a subset of one or more trusses are customized with stiffeners according to loading calculations predicting failure of that subset under required loading conditions, while all other trusses are installed in their original prefabricated state.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of customizing a prefabricated truss having a predetermined loading capacity, said method comprising determining load capacity requirements for an intended application of said prefabricated truss, and if said load capacity requirements exceed said predetermined loading capacity, prescribing installation of an auxiliary stiffener to said prefabricated truss to augment existing web members of said truss that spans between first and second chords of said truss, thereby increasing the loading capacity of said prefabricated truss.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68831
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10605595', '10851874', '11253989', '10360355', '13836034']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8175599334594109
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5014968514202064
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7859536252554905
- Mean Citation Score: 227.74013
- Max Citation Score: 232.27422
- Similarity Product: 142.93279512992618

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