PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16193957
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["052", "223140"]

Abstract:
The present invention pertains in general to post-tensioning apparatus and systems surrounding the fabrication and repair of concrete and other construction materials. The present invention surrounds apparatus and system directed to the post-tensioning for reinforcement of existing and new concrete structures through the application of tensile forces between two attachment points anchored to the structure to be mended.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for applying tension to cracked concrete comprising:\n a tensioning mechanism comprising a constant cross-sectional profile, a first female threaded feature at a first distal end of said tensioning mechanism, a second female threaded feature at a second distal end of said tensioning mechanism, and a torque application feature located between said first and second female threaded features; a first tension application component, with a proximal end aligned with and proximate to said first distal end of said tensioning mechanism, said first tension application component having a male threaded feature at said proximal end of said first tension application component, a bend, a first post-like form and a second post-like form interconnected at a distal end of the first tension application component, and a 90-degree bend located between the male threaded feature and each post-like form, wherein the post-like forms are substantially parallel to one another and substantially perpendicular to the male threaded feature and having a rod-shaped end configured to be inserted into concrete; a second tension application component, with a proximal end aligned with and proximate to said second distal end of said tensioning mechanism, said second tension application component having a male threaded feature at said proximal end of said second tension application component; said second tension application component having at least one rod-shaped structure engaging feature located at a distal end of said second tension application component; said male threaded features of said first tension application component and said second tension application component configured to engage with said female threaded features of said tensioning mechanism wherein the rotation of the tensioning mechanism in a first direction causes said first tension application component and said second tension application components to retract toward a center of said tensioning mechanism and rotation in a second direction causes the first and second components to protract from the center of the tensioning mechanism; wherein actuation of said tensioning mechanism by rotation allows post-tensioning of a concrete structure when said first tension application component and said second tension application component are inserted in said concrete structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.46341
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14311651', '11977470', '10523355', '14257530', '11353253']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8006104321968663
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4823320414176068
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7687825931189404
- Mean Citation Score: 177.517166
- Max Citation Score: 189.02898
- Similarity Product: 131.28137573064208

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