PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940061
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["428", "058000"]

Abstract:
A decorative covering for a vehicle interior panel is made from two sheets of material joined together at a seam. The sheets of material have matching alignment features along respective edges to aid in visual alignment during the joining operation. The alignment features are spaced along the edge of a decorative layer, and cutouts are formed along a corresponding edge of an attached backing layer such that each alignment feature is visible through one of the cutouts when viewed from the back side. The cutouts are larger than the alignment features and formed before the two layers are laminated together, effectively increasing allowable tolerances during lamination. This construction is particularly useful with leather, which is often subjected to cut-and-sew operations and used with a backing layer.

Claim (Index 12):
A sheet of material as defined in  claim 1 , wherein the alignment features and the cutouts are arranged along a curvilinear portion of the perimeter of the sheet of material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65432
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13570689', '10657782', '12564028', '13635690', '13106148']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9023642353131855
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4794227465522048
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8600700864370876
- Mean Citation Score: 155.030452
- Max Citation Score: 158.27937
- Similarity Product: 107.74976802115738

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