PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031451
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["002", "413000"]

Abstract:
The invention includes a protective headpiece and components thereof and methods for their use. Preferred examples comprise a helmet component, a plurality of piers joining said helmet component to a shoulder pad component and an inner hat component permitting the wearer the ability to move the head from side to side and/or up and down within the helmet component without moving the helmet component. The helmet component may comprise a plurality of fluid-filled floating plates or floats on the inner surface thereof to cushion the head against impact during activities including, for example, football, race car driving, military activities and the like.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for protecting a player's head from concussion during a contact sport comprising:\n placing a shoulder pad component on said player's upper body, said shoulder pad component structured to cover the shoulder blades of the player and comprising a hard plastic shell with foam padding underneath, said shoulder pad component further comprising a force-diffusing element integrated around a neck opening of the shoulder pad component, said force diffusing element having one or more connector receptacles as part thereof; placing a helmet component on said player's head, said helmet component having an interior surface comprising a padding component, an exterior surface comprising an impact-resistant polymer, and a plurality of piers being integrated into and structurally connected within the helmet component as part of the helmet manufacturing process, each pier of said plurality of piers having an end comprising a connector removably affixable to a connector receptacle of the force diffusing element of said shoulder pad component, respectively, to form a unitary engineered network effective to selectively transfer impact forces from the helmet component through the plurality of piers, and the shoulder pad component to the player's shoulders and body in preference to the player's head, neck and spine, and wherein the interior surface of said helmet component is adapted to permit the player to turn his or her head from side to side within the helmet component without the helmet component itself moving; and affixing said pier connectors to the corresponding connector receptacles of the shoulder pad component.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 2.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15057938', '15262946', '14194901', '15467371', '13385051']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6295489010312538
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6508144631869545
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.631675457246824
- Mean Citation Score: 371.481428
- Max Citation Score: 625.02795
- Similarity Product: 617.5970791711985

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