PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977107
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["052", "706000"]

Abstract:
A method of installing a vertical reinforcing bar in a masonry wall includes constructing a base portion of the masonry wall, positioning a vertical holster within the base portion, stacking concrete masonry units above the base portion to form a vertical core within the concrete masonry units that is aligned with the vertical holster, and lowering the vertical reinforcing bar through the vertical core and the opening of the upper portion of the vertical holster until the leading end of the vertical reinforcing bar is secured to securing means of the vertical holster.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of installing a vertical reinforcing bar in a masonry wall, the method comprising:\n constructing a base portion of the masonry wall; positioning a vertical holster within the base portion, the vertical holster comprising an upper portion having an opening and a lower portion having a securing means, the opening of the upper portion having a greater diameter than the vertical reinforcing bar such that the upper portion is dimensioned and configured for loosely receiving a leading end of the vertical reinforcing bar; stacking construction units above the base portion to form a vertical core within the construction units that is aligned with the vertical holster; and lowering the vertical reinforcing bar through the vertical core and the opening of the upper portion of the vertical holster until the leading end of the vertical reinforcing bar is secured to the securing means of the lower portion of the vertical holster.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25581
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13754448', '12309795', '11352122', '11105170', '14551665']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8089904484420328
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4911052170403753
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.777201925301867
- Mean Citation Score: 203.496666
- Max Citation Score: 231.24455
- Similarity Product: 165.01705727097394

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test