PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029415
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["473", "340000"]

Abstract:
Putters include a putter body having a ball striking face member made of a material having a first hardness characteristic. A cavity is defined in the putter body behind the ball striking face member, and plural openings are defined in the ball striking face member extending rearward with respect to the ball striking face member and into the cavity. A polymeric material at least partially fills the openings and the cavity, wherein the polymeric material has a second hardness characteristic that is softer than the first hardness characteristic. The ball striking face member and the polymeric material exposed in at least some of the openings provide a ball striking surface of the putter. The ball striking surface may include grooves or scorelines to affect the launch angle, spin, and/or roll of the ball during a putt. Methods for making such putter devices also are described.

Claim (Index 1):
A golf club head, comprising:\n a body including: a ball striking face, a cavity defined in the body at a location behind the ball striking face, a first cavity opening at a surface of the body other than the ball striking face, wherein the first cavity opening opens into the cavity, and a plurality of ball striking face openings intersecting the cavity and extending in a direction away from the cavity, wherein the plurality of ball striking face openings are separate from the opening; and a polymeric material provided in the cavity, wherein the plurality of ball striking face openings extend to and open at the ball striking face, wherein the plurality of ball striking face openings extend in a heel-to-toe direction of the body for a length of the ball striking face openings in a range of 10%-80% of a heel-to-toe length dimension of the ball striking face, wherein adjacent ball striking face openings are separated by a separation distance, wherein the separation distance corresponds to the dimensions of the ball striking face member material between adjacent ball striking face openings, and wherein the ball striking face member material between adjacent ball striking face openings is metallic, wherein the separation distance between any two adjacent ball striking face openings varies along the length of any two adjacent ball striking face openings, wherein the polymeric material extends to the ball striking face and at least partially fills the ball striking face openings.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21429
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15268873', '14167482', '13657546', '12780786', '12467812']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7213753190801097
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5500191943393422
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7042397066060329
- Mean Citation Score: 415.971158
- Max Citation Score: 425.43536
- Similarity Product: 387.9041878069781

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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