PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918735
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["473", "332000"]

Abstract:
A ball striking device, such as a golf club head, includes a face having a ball striking surface configured for striking a ball and a body connected to the face and extending rearwardly from the face. The body has an impact-influencing structure in the form of a channel positioned on at least one surface of the body. A majority of a force generated by impact with a ball is absorbed by the impact-influencing structure, and a majority of a response force generated by the head upon impact with the ball is generated by the impact-influencing structure. The face may have increased stiffness as compared to existing faces, and may include a stiffening structure to create the increased stiffness, such as a porous or cellular stiffening structure.

Claim (Index 2):
A golf club head comprising:\n a face having a ball striking surface and being defined by a peripheral edge; a body connected to the face and extending rearward from the face to define an enclosed volume, the body having a front side, a rear side, a heel side, a toe side, a crown, and a sole; a first channel located on a surface of the body, the first channel having a periphery defined by boundary edges, wherein the boundary edges include a front edge extending laterally along the peripheral edge of the face between a heel end and a toe end of the first channel, such that the heel end and the toe end are located on opposite sides of a geometric centerline of the body, and the boundary edges further include a rear edge located further rearwardly than the front edge, wherein the first channel has a width measured in a front-to-rear direction between the front and rear edges, wherein the rear edge includes a heel portion extending toward the front edge and toward the heel side of the body at a first angle to the front edge, such that the width of the first channel tapers to a first point at the heel end of the first channel, and the rear edge further includes a toe portion extending toward the front edge and toward the toe side of the body at a second angle to the front edge, such that the width of the first channel tapers to a second point at the toe end of the first channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14809960', '14809973', '14809970', '13308036', '13308039']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7911933016503958
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6052266132535852
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7725966328107148
- Mean Citation Score: 542.493268
- Max Citation Score: 567.3208
- Similarity Product: 511.6089036590576

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