PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862288
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["224", "321000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle article carrier is disclosed which has a first pair of support elements and a second pair of support elements secured to an outer body surface of a vehicle. A pair of cross bar assemblies may be secured in either stowed orientations, in which the cross bar assemblies are each secured to one of the first pair of support elements and one of the second pair of support elements, or an operative configuration in which one of the cross bar assemblies is secured to the first pair of support elements while the other is secured to the second pair of support elements. One of the cross bar assemblies may be pivotally attached at one end to one of the support elements enabling it to be swung between its stowed and operative positions. The other cross bar assembly may be fully removable from the support elements, and may be attached in two different locations on the second pair of support elements.

Claim (Index 17):
A vehicle article carrier system for securing articles elevationally above an outer body surface of a vehicle, the system comprising:\n first and second support elements secured in spaced apart relation to one another to the outer body surface adjacent a first portion of the vehicle; second and third rear support elements secured in spaced apart relation to one another to the outer body surface adjacent a second portion of the vehicle; a first cross bar pivotally secured to the first support element via a pivot rotation assembly at a first end thereof, and positionable in an operative orientation extending perpendicularly between the first and second support elements, and a stowed orientation extending parallel to the first and third support elements; the pivot rotation assembly enabling rotation of the first cross simultaneously about two orthogonal axes, and limiting pivotal movement to a predetermined degree about one of the two axes; a second cross bar having first and second ends; the first cross bar including a latching assembly at a second end thereof; the second cross bar including latching assemblies at both of the first and second ends thereof for securing the second cross bar in either the operative or stowed orientations; said second and third support elements each including;\n a first operative mounting location at which the second cross bar is attachable to extend perpendicularly between the third and fourth support elements, to provide a first spacing from the first cross bar when the first cross bar is in the operative position; \n a second operative mounting location at which the second cross bar is attachable to extend perpendicularly between the third and fourth support elements, to provide a second spacing from the first cross bar when the first cross bar is in the operative position; and \n a third stowed mounting location at which the second cross bar is attachable at one end thereof, and at an opposite end to the second support element to place the second cross bar in stowed position on the second and fourth support elements, to enable one end of the first cross bar to be secured to the third support element to enable the first cross bar to be pivoted into, and secured in, a stowed position on the first and third support elements; and \n said first cross bar including a latching assembly at one end thereof for removably coupling the second cross bar in either the operative orientation or the stowed orientation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.70968
- Patent Class: 224.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12639480', '15493805', '15839147', '14577504', '15049574']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8617590249192966
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4994231207135735
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8255254344987243
- Mean Citation Score: 295.47379399999994
- Max Citation Score: 319.92963
- Similarity Product: 285.82744312835814

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

Dataset: test