PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16116736
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["052", "702000"]

Abstract:
A hanger for connecting a structural member to a structural support including a base sized and shaped for receiving the structural member thereon. First and second side panels extend upward from the base. First and second back panels each extend from a respective one of the side panels. First and second top flanges each extend from a respective one of the back panels. An opening in one of said first and second side panels and said first and second back panels is configured to receive a fastener to attach the hanger to one of the structural member and the structural support. A slot is adjacent the opening. An area between the opening and the slot defines a yieldable portion selected to deform at a load that is less than the shear load capacity of the fastener when received through the opening for connecting the hanger to one of the structural member and the structural support.

Claim (Index 19):
An anti-shearing construction connector for connecting a first structural member to a second structural member using one or more fasteners so as to inhibit shearing off said one or more fasteners by the construction connector, the construction connector comprising:\n a first connection portion configured to attach to the first structural member; and a second connection portion connected to the first connection portion and configured to be attached to the second structural member using said one or more fasteners for transferring loads between the first and second structural members when the construction connector connects the first and second structural members, the second connection portion including one or more yieldable portions, each yieldable portion partially defining an aperture in the second connection portion, the aperture configured to receive one of said one or more fasteners to attach the second connection portion to the second structural member, each yieldable portion being configured to change a dimension of the aperture by deforming at a load that is less than a shear load capacity of the fastener received through the aperture when the fastener engages the yieldable portion and less than a shear load capacity of the second connection portion adjacent to the yieldable portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65574
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15353943', '14106714', '14476938', '12946855', '11297426']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8204516642062177
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5384655025669431
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7922530480422902
- Mean Citation Score: 254.342656
- Max Citation Score: 398.3328
- Similarity Product: 313.4082340101242

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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