PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16280387
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["068", "012260"]

Abstract:
A laundry appliance including a chassis with a cabinet enclosing an interior of the appliance. A tub is provided within the appliance defining a liquid chamber. A drum is provided in the liquid chamber defining a treating chamber for treating articles according to a cycle of operation. The treating chamber can be enclosed by a door, selectively openable by a user to access the treating chamber. The door can be selectively opened in three different ways.

Claim (Index 1):
A laundry treating appliance comprising:\n a cabinet defining an interior having a front access opening; a drum provided in the interior defining a treating chamber accessible through the access opening; and a three-way door assembly selectively opening/closing the access opening, and comprising:\n a first door, with left and right sides, pivotable about a left-side vertical axis by applying a pulling force on the right side to define a first way of opening and a pivotable about a right-side vertical axis by applying a pulling force on the left side to define a second way of opening; and \n a second door provided within and partially forming the first door, and pivotable about a horizontal axis by applying a pulling force on a side opposite the horizontal axis to define a third way of opening; \n wherein a user can open the three-way door assembly in any of the first way of opening, the second way of opening, or the third way of opening at the user's preference by correspondingly pulling on the left, right, or opposite sides of the corresponding first and second doors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82222
- Patent Class: 68.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15687731', '15350683', '15137198', '14805106', '15443240']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.799564375764954
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5153077790026422
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7711387160887229
- Mean Citation Score: 222.70951000000005
- Max Citation Score: 334.34738
- Similarity Product: 317.8833998856901

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