PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16277777
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["052", "653100"]

Abstract:
A joint assembly for joining structural members in a building frame can comprise: a marriage strap including one or more through-holes; one or more fasteners configured to be inserted through the one or more through-holes of the marriage strap; and a cube coupling joint including one or more recessed channels sized and shaped to receive a portion of the marriage strap, one or more fastener holes located within the one or more recessed channels and configured to receive and secure to the one or more fasteners. In some embodiments, the marriage strap is configured to be inserted into the one or more recessed channels of the cube coupling joint and the one or more fasteners are further configured to be inserted into and secured to the one or more fastener holes of the cube coupling joint.

Claim (Index 26):
A method of connecting two modular frames, comprising:\n providing a first corner of a first modular frame including a first cube coupling joint and at least one structural member secured to a first face of the first cube coupling joint; providing a second corner of a second modular frame including a second cube coupling joint and at least one structural member secured to a second face of the second cube coupling joint; aligning said first corner of said first modular frame with said second corner of said second modular frame with an alignment pin configured for insertion into a first alignment hole located on an alignment face of the first cube coupling joint and a second alignment hole located on an alignment face of the second cube coupling joint; inserting a first portion of a marriage strap within a first recessed channel located on a recessed face of the first cube coupling joint and inserting a second portion of the marriage strap within a second recessed channel located on a recessed face of the second cube coupling joint, wherein the marriage strap comprises one or more through-holes configured to align with one or more fastener holes within the first and second recessed channels; securing the first cube coupling joint and second cube coupling joint together by inserting one or more fasteners through the one or more through-holes in the marriage strap and threading the one or more fasteners into the one or more fastener holes in the first and second cube coupling joints.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64815
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12999718', '12928799', '10992990', '15626080', '12730719']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8001097305875945
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4753365431285244
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7676324118416875
- Mean Citation Score: 165.75166000000004
- Max Citation Score: 172.08241
- Similarity Product: 133.20172239941002

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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