PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988165
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["042", "001060"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a firearm configuration for a handgun. The firearm configuration is designed to reduce the recoil forces encountered by a user upon firing the weapon. It further includes a recoil plate that absorbs forces generated by the slide during firing. Recoil forces are reduced by lowering the firearm's center of mass and by aligning a recoiling mass with the user's arm and trigger finger. The firearm configuration further includes a locking block which prevents rotational and lateral movement of the barrel upon firing.

Claim (Index 1):
A firearm configuration ( 10 ) for reducing recoil forces encountered by the user of a firearm ( 12 ), the firearm configuration ( 10 ) being triggered by the user's trigger finger, the firearm configuration comprising:\n an upper housing ( 14 ), the upper housing including a barrel ( 16 ) and a firing assembly ( 18 ), the upper housing ( 14 ) having a recoil mass ( 22 ) with an opening; a lower housing ( 26 ) slidably interconnected to the upper housing ( 14 ), a trigger ( 28 ) and trigger assembly ( 32 ) positioned within the lower housing ( 26 ), the trigger assembly ( 32 ) being interconnected to the firing assembly ( 18 ), the trigger assembly ( 32 ) being used to selectively actuate the firing assembly ( 18 ) and fire the firearm ( 12 ), the lower housing ( 26 ) further including a guide rod ( 42 ) and recoil spring ( 44 ) extending through the opening in the recoil mass ( 22 ), the recoil mass ( 22 ) adapted for linear movement along the recoil rod ( 42 ) and in alignment with the trigger ( 28 ); and\n wherein after firing the firearm ( 12 ), the upper housing ( 14 ) slides back with respect to the lower housing ( 26 ) and the recoil mass ( 22 ) slides along the guide rod ( 42 ) to thereby compressing the recoil spring ( 44 ).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71698
- Patent Class: 42.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15095415', '14948716', '14313495', '14997060', '10454778']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.801485834620029
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.552478371519481
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7765850883099742
- Mean Citation Score: 368.248062
- Max Citation Score: 423.99548
- Similarity Product: 413.9963714693689

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

Dataset: test