PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15879655
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["473", "217000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus for assisting a golfer in aligning a golf swing to a ball target includes an elastic strap removably connected to strap fasteners, one associated with a respective toe portion of each golfer's shoe. Shoe covers providing the strap fasteners need not cover the entire shoe, and instead may be partial shoe covers with toe portions and heel portions connected with elastic and/or adjustable side straps. The elastic strap, taunt when the golfer assumes a stance for swinging a club, is in alignment with a desired golf ball target. A sliding marker may be provided on the elastic strap to indicate ball position prior to a swing. The elastic strap is easily removable via connectors, such that after a shot, the golfer need only remove the strap and put it in a pocket, for example, until used again for a subsequent swing.

Claim (Index 1):
Golf swing alignment apparatus, comprising:\n a right fastener supported on a toe region of a golfer's right shoe; a left fastener supported on a toe region of a golfer's left shoe; and an elastic strap having a length with two ends, including a first end removably attachable to the right fastener and a second end removably attachable to the left fastener; wherein the elastic strap has an unstretched state and a stretched state; and wherein, when the golfer assumes a stance to swing a golf club, the elastic strap stretches from the unstretched state to the stretched state, such that the stretched elastic strap forms a line between the golfer's right and left toe regions that is in alignment with a desired target.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81395
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12409993', '12927686', '10383327', '13943133', '14594995']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5966278480873517
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4648981863282813
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5834548819114447
- Mean Citation Score: 147.563548
- Max Citation Score: 160.92198
- Similarity Product: 123.784366210978

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