PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16326339
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["222", "153130"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a locking feature for an aerosol dispenser head having a locking feature incorporating a locking yoke that requires multiple motions to unlock, and a single motion to reengage the locking feature.

Claim (Index 14):
A method for operating a dispenser having a housing with a pair of lateral windows and a back window formed therein, and an locking feature provided by an internal yoke with a pair of lateral yoke arms, the method comprising:\n (1) first pressing downward on each lateral yoke arm; (2) then pressing inward on each lateral yoke arm; (3) then moving each lateral yoke arm backward causing the yoke to move backward; wherein backward movement of the yoke is inhibited until steps (1) and (2) have been carried out; wherein backward movement of the yoke moves a blocking surface on the yoke from obstructing downward movement of an actuator; and wherein subsequent downward movement of the actuator causes product to be released from the dispenser.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.37037
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11268445', '13868900', '10766357', '14846914', '15883489']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.764908391489561
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4857144054397446
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7369889928845794
- Mean Citation Score: 177.351382
- Max Citation Score: 205.34201
- Similarity Product: 137.03142753170962

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