PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028306
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["024", "714600"]

Abstract:
Collapsible tunnel systems or segmented tubular structures may be printed on or otherwise attached to base layers on articles of apparel, articles of footwear, or other articles of manufacture. The collapsible tunnel systems have two or more tubular structures attached to the base layer, with tunnels extending through the tubular structures. A tensile strand may be laced through the tunnels in the tubular structure such that when tension is applied to the tensile strand, the tunnels may collapse into a structure with a continuous tunnel through two or more tubular structures. In some embodiments, two or more segmented tubular structures each have two spaced-apart tubular structures joined by a connecting portion, and a tensile strand extending through tunnels in the tubular structures.

Claim (Index 16):
An article of apparel with a collapsible tunnel system attached to a base layer of the article of apparel, the collapsible tunnel system comprising:\n a plurality of tunnel structures sequentially arranged and attached to the base layer, the plurality of tunnel structures defining a plurality of tunnel paths that are at least partially enclosed, the plurality of tunnel structures including a first tunnel structure spaced apart from a second tunnel structure, the first tunnel structure having a first end, a second end, and a first tunnel path and the second tunnel structure having a third end, a fourth end, and a second tunnel path extending from the third end to the fourth end, and a tensile strand extending along a tensile strand path with at least one curved portion, the tensile strand path extending along the first tunnel path, the second tunnel path, and across a flexible intermediate region of the base layer between the second end of the first tunnel structure and the third end of the second tunnel structure; wherein the flexible intermediate region of the base layer extends a first distance between the second end of the first tunnel structure and the third end of the second tunnel structure when the collapsible tunnel system is in an uncollapsed configuration, and applying tension to the tensile strand causes the collapsible tunnel system to move to a collapsed configuration in which the flexible intermediate region of the base layer extends a second distance between the second end of the first tunnel structure and the third end of the second tunnel structure, the second distance being shorter than the first distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16393
- Patent Class: 24.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15370893', '15370913', '15370976', '14535413', '14535448']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7241137573192201
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4778965174496156
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6994920333322596
- Mean Citation Score: 186.694802
- Max Citation Score: 298.95593
- Similarity Product: 229.7831904140699

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

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