PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16297848
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["264", "045100"]

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a midsole for an article of footwear includes placing first and second preforms in a first mold, closing and heating the first mold to produce a midsole preform with a peripheral preform flange, removing the midsole preform from the first mold and allowing it to further expand and cool, placing the midsole preform in a second mold, with a volume of a midsole recess of the second mold being less than a volume of the midsole preform, and a volume of a peripheral recess of the second mold being less than a volume of the peripheral preform flange, closing the second mold thereby compressing the midsole preform and the peripheral preform flange, and heating the second mold to form a midsole with a peripheral flange, allowing the second mold to cool, opening the second mold, and cutting away a peripheral flange of the midsole.

Claim (Index 13):
A molded foam article for a midsole of an article of footwear, comprising:\n a first portion comprising a first molded foam, the first portion including a forefoot region, a midfoot region, and a heel region; and a peripheral flange portion comprising the first molded foam, the peripheral flange portion forming medial and lateral edges of the molded foam article and extending continuously around an entire periphery of the first portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.38298
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15353903', '13833140', '14812479', '13206899', '12552778']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8080925197640274
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5366630514030525
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7809495729279299
- Mean Citation Score: 313.59989
- Max Citation Score: 379.66306
- Similarity Product: 241.3348528309237

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