PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16207399
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["473", "519000"]

Abstract:
A baseball bat may be provided as part of a baseball training kit and a method of training a baseball player. The bat may include an internal tube sized to accommodate a plurality of cylindrical weights. Similarly sized cylindrical spacers, having significantly less mass than the weights, may also be inserted into the internal tube. Players can select different weight resistances by selecting which of a plurality of spacers and weights should be inserted, and in which order. A cap may be provided proximate the handle in order to secure the weights and spacers within the internal tube.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of baseball training comprising:\n providing a baseball bat having a handle and a barrel, the bat including\n a tube having a tube length and an inner circumference, the tube extending through the interior of the bat along a longitudinal axis of the bat, and \n a removable cap proximate the handle and dimensioned to seal the tube; \n selecting at least one of a plurality of weights, each weight having either a first length or a second length, each weight having an outer circumference approximately the same as the inner circumference of the tube, and each weight having a channel extending longitudinally along an outer surface of the weight; optionally selecting at least one of a plurality of spacers, each spacer having an outer circumference approximately the same as the inner circumference of the tube, each spacer having either the first length or the second length, each spacer having a channel extending longitudinally along an outer surface of the spacer, and the selected weights and the optionally selected spacers having a collective length equal to or less than the tube length; inserting the selected weights and optionally selected spacers into the tube through the handle of the bat; sealing the tube by attaching the removable cap; and repeatedly swinging the baseball bat.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89286
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['09772689', '09882627', '10766434', '13364312', '10622717']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.617268376705805
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4658255415013677
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6021240931853613
- Mean Citation Score: 170.20240600000002
- Max Citation Score: 185.19862
- Similarity Product: 148.4049949400151

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

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