PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870769
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["102", "439000"]

Abstract:
A cartridge with an expanding bullet that has advantageous terminal effects over an extended range. The expanding bullet including a bullet body including a metal jacket extending from a tail portion to a nose portion and surrounding an interior solid core and defining a forward opening and interior cavity. A tip has an exterior surface substantially flush with an exterior surface of the metal jacket. The tip has a main portion forward of the opening and a tip retention portion that at least partially fills the interior cavity. In certain embodiments the tip retention portion includes one or more fluid entry facilitation means such as a fracture regions configured to, upon impact of the bullet with a target, fracture or deform to expose one or more fluid pathways into the interior cavity and to a forward facing interior surface for initiating expansion of the expanding bullet.

Claim (Index 17):
The cartridge of  claim 14 , wherein the mean for initiating bullet expansion includes a fracture region defined in the tip for facilitating fracturing of the tip upon target impact.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98701
- Patent Class: 102.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15294171', '15331631', '15866153', '13768424', '15219012']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7821626862948281
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5168148470443317
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7556279023697784
- Mean Citation Score: 292.701088
- Max Citation Score: 319.3805200000001
- Similarity Product: 205.24593419244297

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

Dataset: test