PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873209
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["220", "003200"]

Abstract:
A universal ring and plate assembly is disclosed for use with an electrical or utility box. The universal ring and plate design can achieve any finish wall thickness by stacking plates and securing them to the universal ring, even after the drywall, tile, stone and/or other wall materials have been installed. The universal ring and plate simplifies the current installation process, eliminates the need for the multiple different depth rings, and accommodates all changes to the finished wall thickness by the owner, architect or builder, without having to tear down portions of the finished wall.

Claim (Index 1):
An assembly for an electrical or utility box where one or more components of the assembly are mounted to or removed from the assembly after drywall or wall materials have been installed, the assembly comprising:\n a ring mounted to the electrical box, the ring defining a planar portion and a ring portion extending outwardly from the planar portion, the ring portion defining an open ring center and a planar ring surface, the ring portion defining a plurality of holes in the planar ring surface; and one or more plates mounted to the ring portion, the one or more plates defining opposing planar surfaces, the one or more plates stacked on the planar ring surface of the ring portion, the one or more plates defining an open plate center, wherein the one or more plates are mounted to and removed from the ring portion without removal of the drywall or wall materials, wherein the opposing planar surfaces define a plurality of holes, and wherein when the one or more plates are stacked on the planar ring surface the plurality of holes in the opposing planar surfaces are aligned with the plurality of holes in the planar ring surface to receive a fastener for securing the one or more plates to the planar ring surface, wherein the drywall or wall materials define a wall thickness and an outer finished wall surface, wherein the one or more plates are stacked to the same thickness as the wall thickness such that the planar surface of the outermost stacked plate is aligned with the outer finished wall surface, and wherein the one or more plates are mounted to the planar ring after the drywall or wall materials have been installed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56716
- Patent Class: 220.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13212634', '13212656', '12321058', '10829754', '11969706']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8281809906332257
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4618299036952673
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7915458819394299
- Mean Citation Score: 165.844716
- Max Citation Score: 180.89708
- Similarity Product: 140.4531670158577

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

Dataset: test