PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16017151
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["052", "717050"]

Abstract:
A board with preformed seals. In an exemplary embodiment, a sealing material is applied to at least one edge of a board to form a preformed seal on that edge. The board is configured such that when the board is attached to a frame adjacent to a another board, at least a portion of the sealing material applied to the edge of the board seals against at least a portion of an edge another board. In one exemplary embodiment, the boards are configured to seal against edges of substantially identical boards. A plurality of the sheathing boards may be installed on a building frame to form a sheathing system that provides a moisture and/or gas barrier between and interior and exterior of a building.

Claim (Index 60):
The method of  claim 51 , further comprising:\n applying a second compressible foam sealing material to a second rigid board, wherein the second rigid board has a second front face and a second back face, wherein the second compressible foam sealing material covers substantially the entire second back face; and attaching the second rigid board to the frame, adjacent the rigid board, after said applying of the second compressible foam sealing material to the second rigid board, wherein at least a portion of the second compressible foam sealing material directly contacts the frame to form an air tight seal and a moisture tight seal against the frame.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27586
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15177664', '13073170', '14311007', '12766950', '14749719']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7996328867164554
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5313622829486491
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7728058263396748
- Mean Citation Score: 261.20680600000003
- Max Citation Score: 369.04108
- Similarity Product: 313.9889632852364

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

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