PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917957
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["473", "604000"]

Abstract:
A sports ball including a plurality of specifically-configured panels bonded together along their abutting edges, and bonded with a carcass on the inner surface of the panels by an adhesive. The carcass surrounds the entire surface of a hanging or suspended elastic bladder that is not fixedly attached to the carcass. The panels include a casing that forms an exterior surface of the ball, and at least one lining layer to give structure, strength and softness to the ball.

Claim (Index 25):
A method of manufacturing a sports ball comprising:\n forming a plurality of panels, wherein each panel has a shape comprising a plurality of vertexes or corners, and wherein each panel is formed by:\n cutting a panel from sheet material comprising a casing layer bonded to a first lining layer; \n forming grooves extending inwardly and oriented perpendicular to the perimeter edge in an outer flange area of the first lining layer, the grooves being positioned about the inner surface of the first lining layer; \n forming cut lines inwardly from perimeter edges of the first lining layer to form flanges around the perimeter edges of the first lining layer; and \n turning the flanges inwardly and attaching them to abutting perimeter edges of the first lining layer; \n attaching the panels to one another along edges of the panels so an outer surface of the casing layers forms an outer shell of the sports ball; providing a fabric carcass that surrounds a hanging or suspended inflatable bladder; attaching a double-lock valve to the hanging or suspended inflatable bladder and the carcass; attaching an outer surface of the carcass to an inner surface of the panels; and molding the outer shell of the formed sports ball; wherein the inflatable bladder is not fixedly attached to the carcass.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57407
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12070557', '11637378', '12924609', '15537875', '15410190']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6425773352160694
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4980435888509331
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6281239605795558
- Mean Citation Score: 241.680696
- Max Citation Score: 249.9126
- Similarity Product: 172.4274340358734

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

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