PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935896
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["473", "564000"]

Abstract:
A ball bat includes a barrel portion, a handle portion, and a joint connecting the handle portion to the barrel portion. In some embodiments, the joint includes a releasable connector configured to releasably connect the barrel portion to the handle portion. In some embodiments, the joint includes two releasable connectors to releasably connect the barrel portion to the handle portion. The ball bat may include a flexible rod element positioned between the two releasable connectors. The rod element may include an elastomeric material. In some embodiments, the ball bat may further include a safety connector between the barrel portion and the handle portion or a releasable connector may include a threaded connection to resist release of the releasable connector. In some embodiments, the joint may include a rotatable element for adjusting flex.

Claim (Index 16):
The ball bat of  claim 13  wherein the means for adjusting flex comprises a removable rod element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.02083
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15815423', '11121503', '14099710', '14447576', '11039350']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6883472103513691
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5724260972103112
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6767550990372634
- Mean Citation Score: 264.551946
- Max Citation Score: 317.42514
- Similarity Product: 199.1188870292652

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